Today July 23, 2012 marks the 30th anniversary of the tragic accident that killed actor Vic Morrow and two Vietnamese children illegally hired in the filming of the episode "Time Out" directed by John Landis of "On the limits of reality the movie«.
Vic morrow and the seven-year-old Myca Dinh Le and six-year-old Renee Shin-Yi Chen lost their lives during the filming of the film when they found themselves filming an extremely dangerous sequence. The three actors were crossing a river when a production helicopter lost control and slammed into them. Morrow and Myca Dinh Le were beheaded while Renee Shin-Yi Chen was crushed under the ship. All the helicopter crewmembers were unharmed.
The incident was due to the fact that the device lost control due to the pyrotechnic explosions that were being used for the dangerous sequence.
The death of the three actors was a remarkable trial that lasted more than a decade, although ultimately no one was found guilty of the accident. tragic event it caused that in the United States, the country where the film was produced, the laws on hiring minors for filming were modified, especially for night sequences and with special effects, and security on film sets was regulated.
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Source | wikipedia
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