# The Great Ongoing Aviation Thread (general and other) (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 23, 2011, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-aviation-thread-general-and-other-part-1/600499 "2011-10-23T02:17:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1435
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2020, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-aviation-thread-general-and-other-part-1/600499/1435 "2020-10-24T18:06:13Z")
> [@saje](#): > > You remembered that! … I bet we all do. It’s a small flying club here and Dave’s accident made a big impression. Lest we forget: > [@General Aviation folk, I need your help again ~](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-aviation-folk-i-need-your-help-again/746545): > > I hope you clever people can help me reconstruct the chain of events. I’ll try to be succinct, but I’m a little stressed… Short version is that some truly good guys found my husband sitting by his plane with a great gash in his skull, blood on the ground in front of the plane, and the plane not running but with the magnetos on. The plane is a 1956 Piper Tri-Pacer. The assumption is that he took a single prop blow to the head, but I don’t know enough about planes or engines to understand how it… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-aviation-thread-general-and-other-part-1/600499)._