HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. – Robert Gary Jones was a pharmaceutical salesman on a business trip, looking forward to getting home to celebrate his daughter’s third birthday. He was enjoying a moment to himself on this resort island, jogging on the beach and listening to his iPod. Officials say the Woodstock, Ga., man neither saw nor heard what struck him from behind Monday evening: A single-engine plane making an emergency landing. The Lancair IV-P aircraft, which can be built from a kit, had lost its propeller and was “basically gliding” as it hit and instantly killed Jones, said Ed Allen, the coroner for Beaufort County on the South Carolina coast.
This is why I don’t go jogging. Lets see, I could either A) sit on my couch and watch 196 hours of college basketball without the threat of an aircraft ending my life, or B) I could go jogging and risk an experimental single engine plane fuckin murdering me. Bubble in (A) on the Scantron, folks.
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