Person struck by plane in Austin Texas.

a reply to: Bigburgh

Doesn't matter. They'll claim the airport was negligent for not having secure access people can't get through, or a system to warn if someone was on the runway.

a reply to: Bigburgh

Poor guy. What did he know about Hillary?

a reply to: Zaphod58

In the 70s, at the brand new ATL airport, there were no fences to the new runways.

My brothers, friends and an old boyfriend would ride out there all the time. It was horrible. Loud. Smelly. Scary.

Sad, sad story for these pilots especially.

originally posted by: Bigburgh
a reply to: Zaphod58

Wow, it's like this at KPIT Pittsburgh International Airport. We've had people trespassing too.

Security can't be everywhere all the time.
Weird that cemeteries are next to runways.

I guess you can't wake the dead!

This seems like a potential suicide.

a reply to: Floridadreamin

Some of my favorite memories are from the runway. We were out there for a reason, and coordinating with the tower at all times though.

a reply to: Zaphod58

Blame everyone except the poor idiot who walks out onto a busy runway...

Personal responsibility. Is that even a thing anymore??

a reply to: Bigburgh

Long time ago I was one of them. Got some great C-130 pics. Didn't go anywhere near the active. I learned better when used to live at an airport.

originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: Bigburgh

Doesn't matter. They'll claim the airport was negligent for not having secure access people can't get through, or a system to warn if someone was on the runway.

Sadly true.

originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

We had a hangar area for private aircraft that the owners could drive their cars out to the hangar, if they had a permit. Only two issues. One was that the gate was slow as hell to close, so you could easily get two or even three cars in at once. The second was that once you were through the gate, the entire airport was wide open. IIRC at one point the gate broke, so they just left it open and put a minimum wage, unarmed guard next to it to check passes. It's a damn miracle nothing ever happened.

I spent over twenty years operating out of both public and military airports all over the country while flying airtankers and helitankers. We drove right up to our aircraft everyday, even when at military airfields, Hill, Kirkland, McClellan to name a few. Even after security tightened after 911. It’s a privilege you don’t abuse and since we were on government contracts we were allowed an exception. I’ve been retired for six years now, so I don’t know how it works these days, but someone wandering onto an active runway isn’t uncommon, it used to be a lot more common

a reply to: JIMC5499

Spent a lot of time at the 112th and 171st. But station 100 had benches out back looking at 28 left and center 10C and 10R. But we NEVER crossed the painted lines.

originally posted by: JIMC5499
a reply to: Bigburgh

Long time ago I was one of them. Got some great C-130 pics. Didn't go anywhere near the active. I learned better when used to live at an airport.

For you

a reply to: Bigburgh

Suicide is my bet. It was dark and tower didn't even know he was there, he waits for approaching airplane and times his jump to runway. A friend of mine flies for SW and talked to one of the pilots. The engine got him not the nosewheel. The crew saw the man closely as they went by.

originally posted by: seagull
a reply to: Zaphod58

Blame everyone except the poor idiot who walks out onto a busy runway...

Personal responsibility. Is that even a thing anymore??

There are idiots out there. The last thing to go through his mind was a CFM International CFM56....


Do not pass, but Zaph is right about coming lawsuits. Nobody reads the signs.

originally posted by: Salander
a reply to: Bigburgh

Suicide is my bet. It was dark and tower didn't even know he was there, he waits for approaching airplane and times his jump to runway. A friend of mine flies for SW and talked to one of the pilots. The engine got him not the nosewheel. The crew saw the man closely as they went by.

That's what I was explaining. I never said the wheels got him.

originally posted by: LSU2018
a reply to: Bigburgh

Poor guy. What did he know about Hillary?

Hot sauce😑

Based on the damage to that engine it must have been Superman. Hard to imagine a soft body doing that.

Wonder if they'll mark down the cause of death as COVID-19...

a reply to: ColonelCorn

There's a lot of open space under that cowling, and you're talking about very thin aluminum on the side. A bird will do more damage than that to an aircraft.

a reply to: Zaphod58

Not seeing an ID on the victim yet, have you heard anything yet?

a reply to: Bigburgh

Nothing yet.

a reply to: Zaphod58

Thank you.