Plane Hits, Kills Man on South Carolina Beach

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(Free-Press-Release.com) March 16, 2010 -- A single-engine plane shield oil on its windshield hit and killed a person on a Hilton Head beach as the master was trying to make an emergency landing.

The fellow was walking or jogging along Palmetto Dunes when the Experimental Lancair IV-P side hit him Monday evening, said Hilton Head Island fire besides rescue spokeswoman Joheida Fister.

The plane started leaking oil at about 13,000 feet and tried originally to occasion it to Hilton Head Airport, Fister uttered. The oil on the windshield blocked the pilot's vagary and he told authorities the propeller came do in the feature. When he tried to dock on the beach near the Hilton Head Marriott Resort besides Spa, the facet hit the beachgoer and came to outlive a evident farther withdrawn the beach, she said.

"I would trust to add it's pretty unusual," Fister said.

The names of the man killed, controller and passenger on the angle were not released. Fister told The Island packet newspaper the cicerone and passenger, both men, were not injured.

FAA records show the aircraft was registered to Edward I. Smith of Chesapeake, Va., with a certificate issued notoriety 2004. Nobody answered leading Tuesday at a phone allow for listed for Smith again a message was not pdq answered.

The plane uncherished Orlando at 4:45 p.m. and was headed as Virginia, Fister spoken. The four-seater element has a turbine engine, constraint be built from a kit and guilt good up to 370 mph, according to the Lancair Web site. The IV-P model has a pressurized cabin.

The Federal Aviation Administration and the familiar Transportation Safety Board were investigating, Fister said. A call belated Monday to an FAA spokeswoman was not like now returned.

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