Georgia College Student, Sani Aliyu, Killed Instantly In Freak Accident By Plane Propeller After Renting Aircraft For First Date

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A Georgia college student died instantly when he walked into the still-spinning propeller of a small airplane he had rented for a dinner date, officials said.

Georgia Southern University sophomore Sani Aliyu, 21, was hit in the head twice at Statesboro-Bulloch County Airport on Sunday night after he got off a plane piloted by two friends who had taken him and a woman to nearby Savannah, according to officials and reports.

“They flew to Savannah to go on a date, flew back, landed at the Statesboro Airport, and the young lady got off the plane, and he got off the airplane and walked toward the front of the plane, and when he did, the propeller hit him,” Bulloch County Coroner Jake Futch told the Statesboro Herald.

The gruesome freak accident happened after the single-engine Cessna had “taxied onto the ramp area” and was stationary at around 10:35 p.m., a Federal Aviation Administration spokesperson told the Herald. The FAA and National Transportation Safety Board are investigating.

There had only been four people on board the plane, including the pilot and co-pilot, a spokesperson for the Bulloch County Sheriff’s Office said.

“Nobody is really at fault of anything,” Hutchens said. “It was an accident.”

Aliyu was an Atlanta resident and a management major, a college spokesperson told The Post. When the plane doors opened, Aliyu’s female date stepped off and headed towards the rear of the plane.

But Aliyu walked towards the front of the craft, where he was struck twice in the head by the plane’s propeller.

He was pronounced dead at the scene at Statesboro-Bulloch County Airport. Aliyu died instantly upon being struck, even though an ambulance was called to the airport’s ramp area where the incident occurred around 10:45 p.m., according to Bulloch County Coroner Jake Futch.

The outlet reports that Aliyu was a sophomore at the school, and majored in management according to Communications Manager Melanie Simón.

A statement from Georgia Southern’s dean of students Dr. Aileen C. Dowell read “we were deeply saddened to hear about the traffic incident that involved one of our students Sunday night.”