A single mother of three died when she was struck by the wing of a landing plane as she rode a lawnmower at a small Oklahoma airport, officials said.
Samantha Hayes, 27, was riding in the vehicle at Broken Bow Airport about 3:30 Friday afternoon when the 1972 Beechcraft Bonanza A36 landed, KFOR reported.
The pilot, 70-year-old James Baxter, noticed Hayes and tried to take off to avoid hitting her, but the wing fatally struck the woman in the head because she couldn’t gain altitude fast enough, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol said.
Hayes was pronounced dead at the scene. Baxter was not injured in the tragic accident and charges have been filed, officials said. The accident is still under investigation.
It was not clear whether the mother worked at the small airport, which has a 3,200-foot runway and is not staffed with air traffic controllers, meaning pilots announce their landings and takeoffs on the radio themselves.
Samantha Hayes, a 27-year-old mother of three, was killed when she was struck by a plane as she rode a lawnmower at a small Oklahoma airport. Facebook / Samantha HayesSamantha HayesFacebook / Samantha Hayes
Friends of Hayes mourned his loss with emotional messages on Facebook.
“Samantha Hayes is an amazing mom to her 3 babies! She is a single mother who works hard to give them a safe and loving home! These babies know they are loved every day of the day!” Darlene Tadleigh writes.
“Their babies will know how much their mother loves them. We never know when this will happen but it can and for him it did,” he wrote.
Friend Brooke Dean called Hayes a “beautiful sweet soul.” Another friend, Carley Hayes, also sent an emotional message.
“God knows [h]is the plan for him and it’s hard for us to process because he’s still needed here but his ways are higher than ours even though it’s hard to understand,” added Tadleigh.
Another friend, Brooke Dean, called Hayes a “beautiful, sweet soul.”
File photo of a 1972 American Bonanza Society Beechcraft Bonanza A36
“I love getting to know you and hanging out. We never had a dull night, we would always be laughing the whole time or doing something off the wall like trying to catch a vulture in the middle of the night when you thought it was a chicken or cutting off our legs crawling under barbed wire to go giggin frogs,” wrote Dean.
“I will cherish the memories we made forever, they are very precious to me. I wish we had more time, Sammy. We love you,” he added.
A third, Carley Hayes, promised that the tragic mother had “a whole family that was going to make sure their baby was okay.”
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