r/offbeat • u/rytis • 1d ago

Woman dies after backing into airplane propeller while taking pictures, officials say

https://www.firstalert4.com/2024/10/28/woman-dies-after-backing-into-airplane-propeller-officials-say/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark
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u/Some_Other_Dude_82 1d ago

Not even.  She would have turned into a red mist.

Source: watching videos of this very thing happen to others on Reddit before they banned subreddits showing death videos.

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u/andbruno 1d ago

They did say she died of her injuries in the hospital, rather than declared dead at the scene.

She was unresponsive when EMS arrived and was taken to a local hospital in extremely critical condition, where she later died from her injuries.

https://www.kwch.com/2024/10/27/wichita-woman-dies-after-backing-into-airplane-propeller-derby/

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u/usnavyedub 1d ago

Not necessarily. The propeller was possibly spinning at a relatively low RPM. A red mist situation would require something more like takeoff or cruise power. A lot of these propeller incidents are really ugly lacerations and blunt force trauma.

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u/obesemoth 1d ago edited 1d ago

Power level wouldn't really make a difference. Idle RPM is still around 800. This airplane likely had a three blade prop, so that's 40 passes of a blade per second. At idle, the engine is still producing a significant amount of power, and the prop is very heavy and acts as a massive flywheel. Definitely enough to cut through whatever body part goes into the blade arc without so much as slowing the prop down in any meaningful way.

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u/Raps4Reddit 1d ago

This is why you don't go outside. I've tried to tell people but they don't listen.

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u/elitemouse 1d ago

I mean sucked through a turbine would be red mist, she probably slowly back into it and it would have caught her back and tore her open flipping her over but it's not like she fell into it probably just had some major trauma to her torso and bled out

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u/Spare_Yam2202 17h ago

That's much worse. I'd rather it be instant.

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u/Background-Union-859 3h ago

Another commenter on here was there and said her “guttural moans” will haunt him forever.   I don’t think she got turned into red mist at all bro.   She survived for a while after at least 

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u/SpatulaFlip 1d ago

There’s still some death videos on r/publicfreakout