Faces of Death - Vic Morrows Death , Twilight Zone Accident

In the early morning hours of July 23, 1982, Morrow and two children, My-Ca Dinh Le (age 7), and Renee Shin-Yi Chen (age 6), died in an accident while filming on location for the Twilight Zone: The Movie in Ventura County, California, between Santa Clarita and Piru. Morrow was playing the role of Bill Connor, a racist who is taken back in time and placed in various situations where he would be a persecuted victim: as a Jewish Holocaust victim, a black man about to be lynched by the Ku Klux Klan, and a Vietnamese man about to be killed by U.S. soldiers. Morrow, Le, and Chen were filming a scene for the Vietnam sequence in which their characters attempt to escape from a pursuing U.S. Army helicopter out of a deserted Vietnamese village. The helicopter was hovering at about 25 feet above them when pyrotechnic explosions damaged it and caused it to crash on top of them, killing all three instantly.[3] He was decapitated along with one of the child actors.

Morrow is interred in Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California.[4]

From Wikipedia

Director John Landis and other defendants, including producer Steven Spielberg and pilot Dorsey Wingo, were ultimately acquitted of involuntary manslaughter and child endangerment. The parents of Le and Chen sued and settled out of court for an undisclosed amount. Morrow's children also sued and settled for an undisclosed amount.[5]

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[107Ryebread]

No it wasn't the pilots fault. It was Director John Landis fault. The pilot was told to fly 20ft above the village with pyrotechnics going off all around him. One of the explosions blew off the tail blades and when that happens they say the pilot becomes a passenger. Read the story behind this and you will realize Landis was warned by the pilot and the helicopter staff that this was unsafe at even higher elevations. Back then Landis took chances to get things out ahead of deadlines.

[windstorm1000]

that is manslaughter---putting others at risk

[egglady]

@1tew3four - Yes, it is. :(

[TuskenMaster]

Do they really have to play that music? It creeps the hell outta me!

[CouchPotato0608]

DAFUQ

[1tew3four]

Oh my god 04:01 is that their heads D;

Man this is so bad.

[1tew3four]

Man, this really freaked me out.

I can't believe something so easily avoidable could just happen like that.

man D;

[BadAssKeith2]

Probably better that it was a bullseye decapitation rather than the blades partially cutting them and/or crushing them and suffering a slow painful death.

[lightside4]

it's amazing how accurate the blades fell on them.

[ot00s1cko]

@muta157 they say they died instantly.

[jackasskidzify]

may they rest in peace