"john smith" wrote in message
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jls wrote:
A cavalier bozo decided to hand-prop a Piper Saratoga on a busy
Australian
airport. He de-monocoqued four Piper Warriors and a Piper Seminole.
Cost:
over $1.5 million. Read about it and see pictures he

http://cellar.org/iotd.php?threadid=2463

And if you want to get an education in ---hand-propping accidents ----
use
these last three words in quotes in a google search. That should keep
you
out of mischief for a few hours.


That picture is several years old.

Yes, it is admitted that the photo and facts have been around awhile, and it
is also admitted that it's universally apropos to the issue of
hand-propping.

Somebody at Santa Monica's airport, who refused to give his name,
hand-propped a 172, which made a bull-gallop for the runway, nearly taking
out a $13 million airplane, and doing quite spectacular damage in its wake.

In Oregon an 80-year-old passenger died as the result of a careless accident
caused by someone hand-propping an aircraft with a discharged battery.

If it happened 100 years ago, it teaches *some* of us a lesson, i. e., that
an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

I have hand-propped since the 80's and must admit that on occasion have
sinned. genuflecting