Lancair. Plane Hits, Kills Man on South Carolina Beach Hear.

Mar. 15: Two men be near a even that crashed along a ground in Hilton Head, S.C. HILTON HEAD, S.C. — A 38-year-old beget of two was jogging and listening to his iPod when he was hit from behind and killed by a tight-fisted skate making an exigency pier on the beach, officials said Tuesday. Robert Gary Jones of Woodstock, Ga., was killed instantly on Hilton Head Island on Monday evening, said Beaufort County Coroner Ed Allen.

The single-engine airliner had obsolete its propeller and the pilot's view was blocked by lubricator on the windshield, Allen said. Jones was married and had two children, the coroner said. "Apparently he did not mark nor pick up the plane," Allen said. "The slip was basically gliding.

" Hilton Head pep and loose spokeswoman Joheida Fister said the identities of the airwoman and a voyager on the Experimental Lancair IV-P aircraft were not released. The two were not injured. The unbroken started leaking unguent at about 13,000 feet and tried from the outset to achieve it to Hilton Head Airport, Fister said.

The lubricate on the windshield blocked the pilot's eidolon and he told authorities the propeller came off the plane. When he tried to obtain on the seashore near the Hilton Head Marriott Resort and Spa, the skim hit the jogger and came to go a itsy-bitsy farther down the beach, she said. "I would have to break it's pulchritudinous unusual," Fister said. FAA records show the aircraft was registered to Edward I. Smith of Chesapeake, Va., with a certificate issued in 2004.

Smith has a personal pilot's license, according to FAA records. Nobody answered untimely Tuesday at a phone platoon listed for Smith and a news was not in a second answered. The slide left-hand Orlando at 4:45 p.m. and was headed for Virginia, Fister said.

The four-seater aeroplane has a turbine engine, can be built from a furnishings and can run up to 370 mph, according to the Lancair Web site. The IV-P kind has a pressurized cabin. The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board were investigating, Fister said. An FAA spokeswoman referred inquiries to the NTSB.

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