This sure sounds like the setup for a joke, but it isn’t. At least she walked into it face-first; if she had backed into it, disaster.
Yeah, blonde jokes aside though, why was this news today ahead of all the other stuff going on in the world? Is it because she is white, blonde, and pretty?
Ouch.
At least they can reattach the hand.
If I’m reading the article right, it was the doctors that amputated the hand, not the propellor, which suggests to me that it was too damaged to save.
Walking into a propellor is just so gruesome that it counts as top news. Plus we’ve all seen Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Oh yeah, I guess you’re right.
But hand transplants are happening these days.
She isn’t the first or the last one to do this. It is a fairly common accident in aviation.
I used to work on a Navy base. This would happen occasionally. I don’t know of anyone who lived to tell about it though.
I did hear about a guy who got sucked into a jet engine and survived though - amazingly, he only had minor injuries. His belt buckle caught on something inside the engine and kept him from being chopped to bits.
I used to have a video clip of this. He was sucked into the starboard engine of an EA-6B.
Did he still have his hearing?
IIRC, initially no, but he recovered it quickly.
Here’s a History Channel clip about it:
It says his helmet saved him - it hit the engine first and shut it down.
That is terrible. When I read “moving prop” I was expecting to read that she ran into a cardboard tree being moved at a photoshoot. A propellor is much worse.
I’ll bet nobody has done it twice!
Yeah, really. I also was picturing a prop piece on the shooting set, which would have been appropriate (sort of) for making “blonde model” type jokes. An airplane propeller incident that mangles her face and hand? Sheesh. That’s just gruesome.
It’s because she lived.
And because it sounds like the start of a really great blonde joke.
I admit… I did chuckle a bit at the way they worded it. Why do they keep pointing out that she’s a “fashionista”? Obviously they are playing to a particular angle/sentiment.
If I were writing the headline it would say “Woman miraculously survives walking into running airplane propeller” or something like that.
Walking into a moving airplane propeller is one of the many exciting ways that characters died in the one-act play “Addict” that we performed in high school. Googling seems to find the play-write as a one Jerome McDonough, if you care to look it up. My character died by stabbing herself in the eyes with knitting needles while high on PCP. Great stuff and perfect for the kids.
So twenty years after her horrible accident, the blonde was getting off a small plane when another passenger asked her how she acquired such horrible injuries.
And she said: “like this!”
From the brief description of her injuries, it had to be feathered variable pitch, so she got slapped instead of struck by the leading edge. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, she got hit with the wide side of a broadsword instead of the business edge.
Also, my op was a blonde joke. Backed into it -> dis-assed-her…
I’m going to be a lot more wary of my ceiling fan.
Mythbusters busted that one.