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By Yaron Steinbuch

A single mom of three was killed when she was struck by the wing of a touchdown aircraft as she rode a garden mower at a small Oklahoma airport, officers stated.

Samantha Hayes, 27, was driving the automobile on the Damaged Bow Airport about 3:30 p.m. Friday when a 1972 Beechcraft Bonanza A36 landed, KFOR reported.

The pilot, 70-year-old James Baxter, seen Hayes and tried to take off to keep away from hitting her, however a wing fatally struck the girl within the head as he was unable to achieve altitude quick sufficient, Oklahoma Freeway Patrol stated.

Hayes was declared useless on the scene.

Baxter was unhurt within the tragic accident and costs have been filed, officers stated.

The accident stays beneath investigation.

It was not instantly clear if the mother labored on the small airport, which has a 3,200-foot runway and isn’t staffed with air-traffic controllers, which means pilots self-announce their landings and takeoffs on the radio.

Hayes’ mates mourned her loss with emotional messages on Fb.

“Samantha Hayes was a beautiful nice mother to her 3 infants! She was a single mother who labored arduous to provide them a secure and loving house! These infants knew they have been liked day by day all day!” Darlene Tadleigh wrote.

“Them infants will understand how a lot their momma liked them. We by no means know when this stuff are gonna occur however they’ll and for her it did,” she wrote.

“God knew [h]is plan for her and it’s arduous for us to course of as a result of she was nonetheless wanted right here however his methods are greater than our methods even when it’s arduous to grasp,” Tadleigh added.

One other good friend, Brooke Dean, referred to as Hayes a “candy stunning soul.”

“I liked attending to know you and hanging out. We by no means had a uninteresting night time we’d at all times ll find yourself laughing the entire time or doing one thing off the wall like making an attempt to catch a vulture in the midst of the night time once you thought it was a hen or reducing our legs crawling beneath the barb wire fence to go frog giggin,” Dean wrote.

“I’ll endlessly cherish these recollections we made they’re completely valuable to me. I want we had extra time, Sammy. We love you,” she added.

A 3rd, Carley Hayes, promised that the tragic mother has “bought an entire household that’s gonna be sure that them infants are good.”