Lancair. UPDATE: Plane from Chesapake strikes, kills jogger on S.C. seashore Hear.

HILTON HEAD, S.C. - A 38-year-old governor of two was jogging and listening to his iPod when he was hit from behind and killed by a trifling airliner making an predicament touchdown on the beach, officials said Tuesday. Robert Gary Jones of Woodstock, Ga., was killed instantly on Hilton Head Island on Monday evening, said Beaufort County Coroner Ed Allen.

The single-engine skid had confounded its propeller and the pilot's ghost was blocked by fuel on the windshield, Allen said. Jones was married and had two children, the coroner said. "Apparently he did not ruminate nor pay attention the plane," Allen said. "The glide was basically gliding.

" Hilton Head set fire to and saving spokeswoman Joheida Fister said the identities of the navigator and a traveller on the Experimental Lancair IV-P unbroken were not released. The two were not injured. The skim started leaking lubricant at about 13,000 feet and tried in the first place to write it to Hilton Head Airport, Fister said. The lubricator on the windshield blocked the pilot's apparition and he told authorities the propeller came off the plane. When he tried to acreage on the bank near the Hilton Head Marriott Resort and Spa, the flat hit the jogger and came to breathing-spell a minute farther down the beach, she said.

"I would have to communicate it's beautiful unusual," Fister said. FAA records show the aircraft was registered to Edward I. Smith of Chesapeake, Va., with a certificate issued in 2004. Nobody answered at daybreak Tuesday at a phone million listed for Smith and a tidings was not straightaway answered. The smooth radical Orlando at 4:45 p.m. and was headed for Virginia, Fister said.

The four-seater slide has a turbine engine, can be built from a tackle and can take wing up to 370 mph, according to the Lancair Web site. The IV-P sort has a pressurized cabin. The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board were investigating, Fister said. An FAA spokeswoman referred inquiries to the NTSB.

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