This Day in History: Salvator Disi, 62, was decapitated on this day in 2019 while using a power cart to jump start a helicopter in Hernando County, Florida. Its unexpected up-and-down motion caused the rotor blades to strike him.
This kind of fatality is rare, but it does happen. A woman, while on vacation in Las Vegas, exited a tour helicopter while the blades were still spinning. Her hat blew off because of the down wash from the blades. She frantically tried to retrieve her hat and while doing so she ran into the tail rotors. She was killed instantly.
One British man was decapitated by a helicopter tail rotor while "taking a selfie" earlier this year. Source
The most famous case of decapitation by helicopter blades happened on the set of the Twilight Zone movie in 1982. They were filming at night in difficult terrain and three people were killed (two were decapitated) when the pilot couldn’t control the helicopter during the simulated explosions going on all around him. One was actor Vic Morrow and the other two were children he was holding at the time. It was a stupid, senseless accident all because the director wanted a night shot. The children were on set in violation of child labor laws as well.
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