One moment Kelly Jones was waitressing at the Landing 27 Bistro at the Peterborough, Ont. airport. The next she was out on the tarmac, using her sweater to try to stop a man’s head from bleeding.
Paramedics say the 80-year-old man was struck by the tail of his own plane Sunday afternoon while trying to manually start the small aircraft by spinning the propeller. That’s when the plane’s rear swung around and knocked the man to the ground.
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When Jones saw what was happening through the restaurant window, she and a young man who had been dining at the bistro dashed outside. Together they managed to pull the man away from the plane, which was circling on the tarmac.
“I don’t know what struck him, I just saw him fall,” Jones told Global News.
The man had suffered several lacerations to his head but was conscious and talking. Jones used her sweater to apply pressure to the top of his head while some of her coworkers fetched clean towels.
“Everything happened so fast,” said Jones. Just moments earlier the man had been eating at the Landing 27 Bistro with his friends, she said.
While Jones and the young man administered first aid, other bystanders called 9-1-1 and managed to bring the plane to a halt.
Paramedics soon arrived and took the man to hospital for observation.
Jones says she was relieved to hear that the man’s injuries are minor.
“I just did what I thought was necessary, that’s all,” she said. “I just reacted.”
-With files from the Canadian Press
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