The Twilight Zone Movie Mishap on This Day in History

This day in history: The Twilight Zone Movie deaths happened on this day in 1982. In the early morning hours of July 23, 1982, actors Vic Morrow and seven-year-old Myca Dinh Le, and six-year-old Renee Shin-Yi Chen, were filming on location in California, in an area that was known as Indian Dunes, near Santa Clarita. The helicopter was hovering at approximately 24 feet above them when the heat from special effect pyrotechnic explosions reportedly delaminated the rotor blades and caused the helicopter to crash on top of them, killing all three instantly. Morrow and Le were decapitated and mutilated by the helicopter rotor blades, while Chen was crushed by a helicopter strut.

Others who died during the production of a movie were Brandon Lee (shot), John Ritter (a tear in his aorta), Redd Fox (massive heart attack), Steve Irwin (stabbed by a stingray) and Bruce Lee collapsed while filming The Game of Death and died 2 months later.