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
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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