14 DAY TRIAL // This kind of story may seem extracted from a lousy movie scene, but, unfortunately, it features a real fact. Apparently, listening to music on your iPod at high volume levels can damage more than your hearing abilities. Therefore, pay attention around you when walking on the street and abandoning yourselves to the mesmerizing music sounds.
Macenstein picked up an article about an accident involving a plane and a jogger listening to his iPod. The story was initially posted by the Associated Press and Macenstein quoted it on its site, saying that a 38-year-old man from Georgia, who was jogging on a South Carolina beach, had been killed in the emergency landing of a single-engine-type airplane. The plane hit the man as he ran while listening to his iPod.
The same source further relates the investigator noted on Tuesday that the jogger, Robert Gary Jones from Woodstock, appeared to not have heard the troubled plane that would hit him from behind on the beach called Hilton Head Island.
It seems, according to the same reliable source, that the plane had lost its propeller and, afterwards, oil burst on the windshield, causing the pilot’s temporary vision block.
An autopsy would be conducted on the victim’s body, by the Beoufort County Coroner, Ed Allen, the official source added. Apparently, Robert Gary Jones, the victim, was married and had two children.
Joheida Fister, Hilton Head fire and rescue spokeswoman, also said that the identities of the pilot and the passenger, who were not injured in this incident involving an Experimental Lancair IV-P plane, had not been made public up until that point in time, Macenstein concludes from the official source article.
This incident obviously occurred due to the plane driver’s lack of experience. The amateur pilot was not only one who would rent or purchase experimental planes to fly around for fun, the report suggests. In situations like this one, the outcomes often resemble, and tragedies occur, rather than plane-flying “know-how” skill improvements. Listening to very loud music while being in an open, circulated space, however, may also be the cause of terrible accidents.
Not much of an Apple piece of news, as any other MP3 player could have been involved in this incident.