Robert Gary Jones, 38, was struck and killed while jogging by a small plane making an emergency landing on a Hilton Head Island beach in Beaufort County, South Carolina

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Accident Date: 
Monday, March 15, 2010

Plane kills beach jogger in emergency landing(link is external)

Robert Gary Jones of Woodstock, Ga., died instantly Monday evening when he was hit by the single-engine plane, which had lost its propeller, said Beaufort County Coroner Ed Allen. The pilot's vision was blocked by oil on the windshield.

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