Ga. Southern student from Atlanta dies after being hit by plane propeller on date - The Atlanta Journal Constitution

Sani Aliyu, 21, and a pistillate were passengers successful a 2005 Cessna 172S that flew to Statesboro to prime the 2 up for their archetypal date, authorities said. The aviator and co-pilot were friends of Aliyu and agreed to assistance him with the date, Bulloch Coroner Jake Futch told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The level is registered successful Brooksville, Florida, which is wherever the pilots took off. They picked up the mates successful Statesboro, flew them to Savannah for meal and returned to the Statesboro-Bulloch County Airport, Futch said.

They landed safely astir 10:35 p.m., the Federal Aviation Administration said. Ten minutes later, an incidental study shows that the Bulloch County Sheriff’s Office was called to the airdrome to analyse Aliyu’s death.

“The miss got disconnected the level and walked toward the backmost of the airplane and past helium walked toward the front,” Futch said. “When helium did that, the propeller deed him doubly successful the caput and erstwhile connected the near shoulder.”

The origin of decease was classified arsenic cerebral lacerations, Futch said. Aliyu was pronounced dormant astatine the scene.

Aliyu was a sophomore astatine Georgia Southern studying absorption and is primitively from Nigeria, a assemblage spokesperson said. Futch confirmed that Aliyu lived connected Lenox Road successful Atlanta.

“We were profoundly saddened to perceive astir the tragic incidental that progressive 1 of our students Sunday night,” Associate Vice President and Dean of Students Aileen Dowell said. “I person already been successful interaction with his household and professors and we person mobilized each disposable resources to supply counseling and immoderate different assistance the assemblage tin give.”

The incidental was turned implicit to the transgression investigations part astatine the sheriff’s office, but they confirmed it was modular signifier for each akin cases to beryllium investigated criminally. The FAA and National Transportation Safety Board volition besides beryllium investigating.