I have spend some great times visiting with our North Carolina friends on Hilton Head Island and we are talking years. So it was with some alarm that I read about a jogger, jogging on a beach we undoubtedly were on once upon a time, killed by a plane trying to make a landing on the beach.
The report said that the plane’s engine quit and the plane was gliding (no engine noise). The pilot’s vision was imperiled by oil that was squirting onto the windshield.
But here is the biggie, the jogger was listening to his IPOD and would not have been able to hear anything coming up on him from behind, even a gliding plane.
I don’t know if not having the IPod in his ears would have saved this jogger’s life but I am always amazed at people running or walking along the beautiful beach and not allowing nature’s sounds to enter their ears especially when you are from a big and noisy city like Chicago?
The report said that the plane’s engine quit and the plane was gliding (no engine noise). The pilot’s vision was imperiled by oil that was squirting onto the windshield.
But here is the biggie, the jogger was listening to his IPOD and would not have been able to hear anything coming up on him from behind, even a gliding plane.
I don’t know if not having the IPod in his ears would have saved this jogger’s life but I am always amazed at people running or walking along the beautiful beach and not allowing nature’s sounds to enter their ears especially when you are from a big and noisy city like Chicago?
No comments:
Post a Comment