He died from his injuries. Director Rob Cohen later said: "We had stuntmen involved with this picture; didn't get a scratch. It shows you the lengths to which we will go to bring this kind of intense experience to the viewer. Stuntmen know they are in danger. They make their living through danger. Most of the time, it's all right.
Sometimes, unfortunately, it isn't. The fatal accident occurred on O'Connor's second take of the stunt; his first take was successful and can be seen in the film. Scholl had been performing an upside-down spin in a camera-equipped aerobatic biplane when the Pitts S-2 plane plunged into the Pacific Ocean after Scholl was heard saying over the radio: "I have a problem; I have a real problem. Stuntman A. Bakunas was determined to take back the record won from him by Dar Robinson see below , by falling from the 22nd floor of a construction site for the movie Steel, on which he was playing George Kennedy's stunt double.
Filming Kennedy's character's death, Bakunas successfully completed the jump, but the airbag beneath him ruptured, causing him critical injuries. Stuntman Paolo Rigon, 23, was driving the bobsleigh, and was killed when he became trapped under the sleigh, which continued to drag him along. The accidents led to the course being shortened. Kun Liu, 25, was killed while performing on an inflatable boat on the Ognyanovo reservoir in Bulgaria. The stunt had involved an on-set explosion which went awry, resulting in Liu's death and another stunt actor, Nuo Sun, being seriously injured.
Liu's parents filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Millennium Films and the movie's stunt coordinator, Chad Stahelski. Lamon, 35, and another stuntman were set to jump out the back of a truck, which was being towed upside down along a street, when he hit his head.
We are very sad about this. It doesn't happen very often. Joi Harris was the double for actress Zazie Beetz on Deadpool 2 , and was performing her first stunt when she was killed in a motorcycle crash in Harris was killed when she was ejected from the bike she was riding and crashed through the plate glass window of a nearby building.
A report from WorkSafeBC found that Fox had "failed to conduct a risk assessment addressing safety controls, speed of the motorcycle, and equipment limitations," had "failed to ensure that the stunt performer was wearing safety headgear" and failed to provide "adequate supervision" for Harris.
Ryan Reynolds, who plays Deadpool, said he was "heartbroken, shocked and devastated" by Harris's death. Having been a stunt double for Charlize Theron on the set of Mad Max: Fury Road , Jackson received a lot of love from both Theron and Jovovich, as well as other people she formerly had worked with. The film was about Jane Fonda's character Ella Connors, who felt pressure about selling her cattle farm.
During a scene that involved Jason Robaard's character being dragged by a horse to his death , stuntman Jim Sheppard was both sadly and ironically dragged to his death. The horse who was dragging Sheppard didn't stay on course and instead, switched directions.
The horse going off course caused Sheppard to hit his head on a fence post. This scene is still in the movie, ands is cut off right before Sheppard hits his head on the fence post. So, you can essentially see Sheppard in his final moments in the movie.
Rest in peace. Stunt coordinator Chris Anderson was eating his lunch while on break during the production of Wind , a movie about sailors who have the desire to win a sailing prize called the American Cup. While on his lunch break, Anderson decided to sit on one of the yatch. In a freak accident, one of the thirty foot yachts collided into the boat that Anderson was sitting on. Anderson had been in the stunt business for a long time, and has done stunts for both King Kong and Mad Max.
After the boat accident, Anderson had his right leg amputated below the knee. Since then, he has still been working, and has proved to the world that nothing will stop him when it comes to his passion of stunt performing and coordinating. The Expendables 2 had some serious issues when it came to their stunts.
While filming in Bulgaria, stuntman Kun Lieu was killed during a scene that involved an explosion, and stuntman Nuo Sun was seriously injured after the explosion as well. Nuo Sun is a professional in the business, having done work on Ant-Man , John Wick , and even working on the upcoming Aquaman film.
He was Jet Li's stunt double in the film. The accident resulted in him having injuries in his neck, head, arms, legs, as well as his nervous system, and he ended up suing Millennium Films for negligence. As for Kun Lieu, his family obviously had to deal with the death of their loved one. Millennium Films came out with a statement , which said: "our deepest condolences go to the family of Kun Lieu.
His passing is tragic. The Hangover Part II involved a lot more stunts than you might realize. He was acting as Ed Helms' stunt double and was leaning out of the taxi window when he hit another taxi head on. He ended up having flesh torn from his skull and a giant gash on the right side of his head. McLean claims the vehicle went faster than it was supposed to, making the stunt extremely dangerous, especially for him. He ended up suing the movie's producers, as well as Warner Bros.
Vampire in Brooklyn is exactly what it sounds like: a vampire who lives in Brooklyn. Not surprisingly, the movie did horribly. Starring both Eddie Murphy and Angela Bassett, it's not as if the film was lacking when it came to it's actors, it was simply just a bad movie. Bassett's stunt double, Sonja Davis, fell to her death during filming. During a stunt, she fell forty-two feet. Apparently, Davis was not comfortable with the stunt, and her last words were "are you sure?
In the the film xXx , Vin Diesel's stunt double Harry O'Connor was killed instantly during filming shoot while doing aerial stunts. O'Connor had been attempting to rappel down a parasailing line. His goal was to land on a submarine, but, instead, he hit a bridge while going down at high speed. Harry O'Connor had been in the stunt business for a while, having done stunts for The Perfect Storm and having been the skydiving coordinator for Charlie's Angels.
In , free diving champion Audrey Mestre was trying to break the "no limits" dive world record of Everything went well until she was on her way back up. According to the Miami Herald , her cause of death was equipment failure — in no-limits free diving, an air tank fills a balloon, which helps the diver get quickly back to the surface.
Mestre's air tank didn't have enough air in it to inflate the balloon. The International Association of Free Divers gave Mestre a posthumous honor for the practice dive she'd completed a few days earlier — feet, which was just 3 feet short of the dive that killed her.
After her death her husband, Francisco "Pipin" Ferreras, swore off free diving, except for a single dive he said would be in her honor. In he changed his mind and said he'd come back for one more record-breaking attempt and then retire And that's enough to give you some insight into the minds of extreme sportsmen — even knowing the risks, it's hard to give up the thing you love. Extreme sports are always pretty terrifying and sort of insane — otherwise they wouldn't be called "extreme" — but wing walking has got to be right up there, surpassing "sort of insane" into the territory of "completely and utterly insane.
According to CBS Detroit , Green was trying to transfer in midair from a plane to the skid of a helicopter when he slipped. Green's stunt was one of the biggest attractions of the show, and a lot of spectators initially believed the fall was part of the act — which seems to be a common misconception when daredevils die during performances. It wasn't until the show's announcers told the crowd something had gone wrong that they finally learned the truth.
Green was the son of Hall of Fame aerial stunt performer Eddie "The Grip" Green and was following in his dad's footsteps. He had more than 25 years of experience performing aerial stunts. The human cannonball is one of the world's most time-honored acts of putting oneself in great mortal peril for the amusement of others. According to Gizmodo , the first human cannonball took to the air in , launching both himself and the careers of a long, distinguished line of people who ultimately died in the line of duty.
Broken limbs, broken backs, and broken heads are fairly common injuries for human cannonballs, a fact that didn't stop Matt Cranch from signing up for a job with Scott May's Daredevil Stunt Show. In , Cranch was about to perform as a human cannonball for the first time, in front of a crowd of hundreds of people in Kent, England.
He was shot 40 feet into the air, but his safety net collapsed on landing. He hit head first and died from his injuries. An inquest later found that the quick release mechanism on the safety net hadn't been set properly. Cranch was a former mechanic who had been on the stunt team for about a month at the time of his death and had practiced the stunt a total of five times.
During the court case against the show's organizer, prosecutors argued that the quick release mechanism wasn't even necessary for the stunt — a standard net set up prior to the incident would have done the job without risk of failure.
If there's anything that can be learned from the wing walking accidents of a bygone time which is evidently like it's this: Don't walk around on the wing of an airplane, unless it's firmly parked on the asphalt. Even then, it's probably not an awesome idea because pilots tend to get mad when you walk around on their planes' wings without permission. But that's not a lesson that everyone has learned, and so recently there was yet another wing walking accident — this one in Canada, and the daredevil who did not survive the stunt wasn't even a professional daredevil.
According to CNN , a rapper by the name of Jon James thought a wing walking stunt would make for an awesome music video, but he wasn't exactly a trained stuntman and while he did train, he may not have had the kind of practice needed to safely perform death-defying stunts.
Unfortunately, making a mistake while wing walking isn't quite like making a mistake while tap dancing — James walked a little too far out on the wing, which caused the pilot to lose control of the aircraft. The rapper tried to hold on as the Cessna went into a spin, but the effort was futile and by the time he let go he was too close to the ground to use his parachute.
America has a long and noble history of innovation, creativity, and throwing ourselves over waterfalls for the amusement of others. The very first daredevil who did this was Sam Patch, who incidentally was also America's first daredevil in general.
According to Atlas Obscura , Sam Patch survived the leap into Niagara Falls twice, which is pretty impressive but not daring enough, evidently. Beating his own accomplishments was really the only way he could keep the public's attention it's not like people were exactly lining up to challenge his title as "world's most insane waterfall man" or anything , so he had to keep upping the ante.
After Niagara become boring and passe, Patch decided to leap from the High Falls on the Genesee River, which was not quite as high up as the foot platform he'd jumped from at Niagara but would at least bring in a new audience. And just to make the spectacle even more tempting, he promised to push a bear into the water first.
Somewhere between 6, and 8, cash-bearing people showed up to watch and everything went great, but Patch wanted more — specifically, more cash. So he scheduled a second jump, but this time, something happened mid-descent.
Spectators said he "drooped," and then hit the water looking more like a marionette than a living person. And that was Sam Patch's last jump — his body was found 7 miles downstream four months later. The bear survived. There's something about Niagara Falls that inspires daredevils, despite the fact that the ratio of survived to didn't-survive is roughly three to one.
According to NY Falls, of all the daredevils who have attempted to go over the falls in some kind of vehicle whether a barrel or a kayak , 16 survived and six died. On June 2, , authorities found the body of Kirk Jones below the falls, but no one really seems to know much about his jump — Newsweek says tourists spotted "an inflatable ball" going over the edge in April, and police later found Jones' website, entitled "Kirk Jones Niagara Falls Daredevil.
And who is this "Misty," exactly? That was Jones' pet boa constrictor, who was believed to have been inside the inflatable ball with Jones. The snake isn't thought to have survived, either. Young adults are hardwired to do stupid and risky things, so when they get killed doing crazy stunts they saw on YouTube it's horribly, horribly tragic but sometimes not very surprising.
When a year-old dies doing something crazy, though, it's a little harder to understand. In , a New Jersey truck driver named Nick Piantanida decided for some reason that he was going to break the world record for falling from impossible heights, despite not really having any training or experience doing such things.
Now, since this stunt can only happen at the literal edge of space, it seems like for most people it would remain a stupid pipe dream, but not for Piantanida. He was somehow able to find lots of enablers, including the senator who gave him a space suit, some other people who gave him money, and enough volunteers to help make the whole thing happen.
According to Smithsonian Magazine, Piantanida made two attempts to ride a balloon into the sky, neither of which were successful. No one is really quite sure what happened on the third attempt, but before he reached the target altitude of , feet, ground control heard "a sudden hissing sound" followed by the first half of the word "emergency. He died four months later without ever regaining consciousness.
Jumping over stuff on a motorcycle or getting shot out of a cannon or leaping over Niagara Falls at least looks cool. You should never, ever try doing any of those things, but at least most people understand the motivations behind those particular acts of daring — it's the jaw-dropping, death-defying wow factor, and if it's accompanied by flames, loud noises, or bears, so much the better.
But sometimes people attempt stunts that aren't even visually impressive. Instead, they're just plain horrible to comprehend. In a year-old Sri Lankan man named Janaka Basnayake dug a foot deep trench and buried himself in it.
And what's more, his friends and family were all evidently on board with his plan, since they pitched in to help him out. According to the Telegraph , Basnayake was attempting to break the world record for "longest time buried alive," and he wasn't actually a stranger to being covered with dirt for hours at a time — his previous stunts had lasted between two and a half and six hours.
This time he was going for six and a half hours, but evidently that was around a half hour too long. When he was dug up at the end of the stunt he was unconscious, and he was dead by the time he arrived at the hospital. Of all the stupid stunts people do, speed stunts are probably the most impressive and the most dangerous. Before the advent of cars, people tried to beat each other on foot, and then on horseback, and then while doing weird things like underwater archery or typing with your nose.
So really it's more accurate to say that some speed stunts are dangerous and impressive, but definitely not all of them, unless the person who is typing on your keyboard with his nose has bird flu or something. Anyway, according to Michigan Aviation Archaeology , year-old Lowell Bayles set the official air speed record of So Bayles tried again, but this time the attempt ended tragically.
The plane took off and picked up speed, but before the official run began it "pitched violently," rolled three times and crashed in a spectacular fireball. No one is completely sure what happened, but the most popular theory is that Bayles got hit on the head with his own gas cap, which came loose during flight and incapacitated him. The theory seems to be supported by video footage of the craft, and by the fact that the gas cap was found loose some distance from the crash site, along with Bayles' bloody goggles.
It's kind of starting to seem like maybe Niagara Falls needs to answer for its crimes. Because it's killed like 5, people, while Mt. Everest , in contrast, has only claimed around Granted, Everest does keep all its victims lying around like gruesome trophies, which is way more sociopathic than what Niagara does, but still, Niagara has some special powers — it can kill from a distance, sort of like Darth Vader only without all the one-sided banter during strangulation.
So how does Niagara do this? Well, surviving the descent over Horseshoe Falls is kind of miraculous, and people who experience miracles sometimes think they're untouchable. According to the LA Times , in year-old Canadian daredevil Karel Soucek went over Horseshoe Falls in a barrel, which must have given him some confidence because less than a year later he did the same basic stunt again, only this time from the top of the Astrodome into a foot wide water tank.
Overconfidence got him there, but the accident itself can be blamed on both the barrel's instability and the awesome power an audience who kind of wants you to just hurry up already because it only has the babysitter until 9 p. Human beings dreamed of flight for centuries before the Wright brothers figured out how to do it. In fact it's probably safe to say that it's one of the core human ambitions, right behind becoming wealthy and eating as much chocolate cake as you want without having to worry about calories.
So there really is a very long and distinguished list of people who have tried to conquer the skies in the stupidest ways possible.
A thousand years ago, though, you couldn't really blame people for thinking that all you need to achieve flight is a pair of wings somewhat similar to bird wings. So for most of human history you have accounts here and there of people who built wings, jumped off high places, and plummeted to their deaths.
According to How Stuff Works , one of the earliest records of this comes from A. So there you have it, it isn't just modern people who die in stupid, hopeful, arrogant ways. It appears to be built into our DNA. A lot of people tried to improve on human flight, but most of the time the only real flying that occurred was when the bits and pieces of those carefully crafted wooden or feathered wings flew into the air upon impact.
For some reason, it never occurred to most of these earlier aviators that they should maybe test their inventions on like a mannequin or a bear or something before actually strapping it to their bodies and jumping from the edge of a cliff.
According to the Vintage News , Franz Reichelt was an Austrian tailor who evidently felt that his profession specially qualified him to design aerodynamic clothing, since everyone knows pant legs and coattails must perform within certain specifications on a gusty day. Anyway it was , and Reichelt had just invented the parachute suit, which was basically a flight suit with a parachute built into it.
Instead of testing the weird-looking thing on a dummy, though, he decided to test it on himself — this despite the fact he'd already broken a leg during an earlier, much lower altitude test. That earlier failure, he felt, was entirely due to not being tested from even greater heights, and he was so sure of this fact that he went up to the first stage of the Eiffel Tower and then jumped feet to his death. As it turns out, a lot of people gave their lives during the early pursuit of flight, and it wasn't just in planes, gliders, and parachute suits.
Early hot air balloons were also pretty temperamental, like "I'm going to catch fire and fall out of the sky now" temperamental, which you might not know is like one of the worst kinds of temperamental there is, right behind "I'm going to explode now" and "I'm going to eat your liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.
According to National Geographic , the world's first deadly balloon crash happened in , when a balloon operated by French balloonists Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier and Pierre Romain caught fire and sent its occupants plummeting to Earth. The cause of the accident was most likely a stray spark, although it might not have happened at all if de Rozier hadn't put hydrogen in his balloon, which does tend to get rather explode-y when you combine it with fire.
The accident was the first balloon-related fatality in the history of manned flight, so at least the two men are remembered, though probably not for the reasons they'd hoped. Speed records on land or in the air are cool and all, but it takes a special kind of crazy to tackle a speed record on the water. Because water may look all pleasant and summery and like it's inviting you in for a swim but what it really wants is to kill you.
According to the Guardian , in Donald Campbell was trying to beat the water speed record of The weird thing about this story is that Campbell seemed to have known what would happen if he pushed his boat too far — he'd once said that Bluebird could withstand less than 3 degrees of nose lift before it would flip, and he was certainly smart enough to know that excessive speed could make that happen.
And here's the other half of the tragedy: Campbell died as the water speed world record holder, not because his fatal run had broken the existing record but because the existing record already belonged to him.
That's right, he died trying to best himself. Evel Knievel was the Elvis of daredevils, with his bright white, star-studded jumpsuit complete with cape and curly chest hairs. But even Evel Knievel knew his own limitations — after he nearly killed himself while attempting to jump 13 buses with a motorcycle , he went on to complete a single record-breaking jump of 14 buses and then called it quits.
Well, there was that one stupid jump over a tank full of sharks that he did after that, but that was too lame to really talk about. Anyway, lots of people since then have tried to duplicate Evel Knievel's stunts, but 13 or 14 buses is just so According to the LA Times , in a year-old Iranian daredevil named Javad Palizbanian decided to jump not 15 or 16 buses but 22, which would have really shown Evel Knievel who was still alive at the time who the true king of bus-jumping was, except that the stunt killed him.
Ironically, he came down on the 13th bus, so not only had he misjudged his abilities by a full nine buses, but he also unwittingly duplicated Knievel's 13 bus accident at Wembley Stadium in Wu Yongning called himself "China's First Rooftopper.
Only the first 44 floors of the building are open to the public — Wu's girlfriend said he'd probably taken the elevator as far as it would go and then climbed the rest of the way. Wu was an experienced stuntman who had completed similar feats hundreds of times and had made the equivalent of thousands of dollars from the videos he shot of himself performing.
Wu's family believed that Sina News , one of China's major news outlets, had put up the money. His step-uncle said that Wu needed the cash for his mother's medical expenses and for his wedding. He had planned to propose to his girlfriend the day after his death. Wu's death prompted debate in China over "close-to-death" reality videos, where people are encouraged to record themselves doing dangerous things in exchange for money and internet fame.
Shortly after his death, Wu's stunt videos were removed from the two popular video services that had previously promoted them. Sorry pilots, skydivers, and people who like to bounce really, really high on trampolines: Humans aren't meant to fly. Sure, we do it, and most of the time, we get away with it. But every now and then, we're reminded that we're really vulnerable up there, and when things go wrong, we can't just flap our wings and catch the next updraft to safety.
Because we don't have wings. They weren't in the helicopter, though — they were below it, hanging from a rope beside a huge Colombian flag. According to the Australian Associated Press , the pair were waving at the crowd when they suddenly fell to their deaths. The commander of the Colombian Air Force later said that the rope they were clinging to didn't detach — it snapped. He also said that investigators had eliminated the possibility that the rope was worn or that safety procedures weren't followed, which sounds kind of like a roundabout way of saying, "It's not our fault.
Reality TV has taught us one thing: Human beings will go to great lengths to achieve fame. Sometimes, people will even risk death for a shot at becoming a household name. That sounds like an awful, awful suicide attempt, but that's not what it was — he was actually recording an audition video for a program called "India's Got Talent.
Unfortunately, the fire raged out of control before Jalaluddin had a chance to remove his shirt, and his videographers were a bunch of neighborhood kids who ran away when things went south, leaving no one to help put out the blaze. Jalaluddin suffered burns over 60 percent of his body. He died three days later in a hospital. The problem with becoming known for shooting amazing images from dizzying heights is that you always have to top yourself. If you got a great shot from 15 stories high, then you need to get an even better shot from 30 stories high, and then you need to improve on that shot by climbing up the scaffolding on a construction site or dangling your feet off a ledge as the city buzzes along far, far below.
Christopher Serrano shared the photos he shot from atop tall buildings and bridges in New York City with his , Instagram followers. According to the New York Post , Serrano was attempting a photo from the roof of a moving subway car when he was knocked off the train by an unknown object. He died on the tracks while his girlfriend watched helplessly nearby. Serrano's last known image, captioned "It's lonely up here," was a shot of his feet dangling over Times Square from the top of a skyscraper.
Well, that's not what Norjani did with the According to MSN , Norjani kept the snake in his hut for about a week before he brought it out to show to his neighbors, but not in a "let me lure it out with this flute" sort of way.
Instead, he spun it around until it was good and angry and even laughed when it hissed and lunged at him. Unsurprisingly, the snake bit Norjani twice, once on his arm and once on his face. He resisted onlookers' efforts to help after the first bite and continued performing until after the snake delivered the second bite.
Even then, he did not immediately seek medical attention. Two hours after his weird impromptu performance, Norjani was taken to a hospital and given antivenom, but he'd waited too long to seek help. He died that evening. After his death, his family cut the snake's head off, which is kind of a tragic epilogue, really, given that the snake wasn't exactly the instigator in the whole horrible affair.
In yet another installment of things you should never do for YouTube fame, a Spanish YouTuber named Ruben Carbonell broke into a cement factory late one night and then filmed his own death.
The stunt didn't go the way Carbonell had planned it, unfortunately. According to Extra. Carbonell went first, but his parachute failed to open. He fell to his death. Carbonell's YouTube channel featured parachuting and paragliding videos and similar jumps from tall structures like bridges.
He had just subscribers, so he was either trying to create some wild content to draw in more fans or he was okay with risking his life for a handful of likes. Either way, his death was an avoidable tragedy. Remember the Ice Bucket Challenge? That was like a couple of centuries ago in YouTube time, but for a while, it was a big thing. Except, one could get tired of watching random people pouring ice water on their heads and then gasping in miserable shock because, for some reason, it never seems to occur to anyone that ice is cold.
Anyway, year-old Cameron Lancaster must have realized that being the bazilionth ice bucket challenger would just make people yawn, so he decided to up the game. He completed the Ice Bucket Challenge and then followed it up with an foot leap into an abandoned quarry. In his defense, there was water in the quarry, and evidently, kids would jump into it all the time.
But something went wrong this time, and Lancaster landed in shallow water. His body was recovered four hours later. Lancaster wasn't the first person to suffer the fatal consequences of a not-boring Ice Bucket Challenge — according to The Telegraph, just a few days before Lancaster's stunt, a woman attempted the challenge on the back of a horse and died after the animal threw her, because horses don't like having buckets of icy water dumped on them any more than humans do.
There's a reason why today's Red Bull commercials are cartoons — cartoon characters can't accidentally die during filming.
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