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A woman riding a lawnmower is struck and killed by the wing of an airplane (apnews.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I initially imagined the woman was mowing her own private property when the incident happened.

She was probably a worker at the airport trimming the grass around the runway. This is likely a non towered airport to no ATC to guide the plane about obstacles on and around.