Stephanie Cosme, 32, was killed last year when she inadvertently walked into the rotating propeller of an aircraft in California

A US air force civilian contractor had become disoriented recording data at an airport in California last year when she walked into a jet’s rotating propeller and was killed, officials said on Friday.

In a statement outlining the findings of a report into the contractor’s death, the air force materiel command said that 32-year-old Stephanie Cosme was mortally injured on 7 September when she inadvertently walked into the rotating propeller of an MQ-9A that was parked at Gray Butte airfield.

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    2 年前

    “We’ve investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing.”

    I guess because it’s not cops and because the snowball effect has taken hold, this rhetoric suddenly doesn’t apply.

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      They did find wrongdoing on their part: they didn’t train or instruct her adequately. It’s just that her becoming disorientated was also a contributing factor.

      Cops would have just called her an immigrant terrorist or something, and planted drugs on her remains.