On July 23, 1982, a Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopter crashed at Indian
Dunes in Valencia, Santa Clarita, California, during the making of
Twilight Zone: The Movie. The crash killed three people on the ground
(actor Vic Morrow and child actors Myca Dinh Le and Renee Shin-Yi
Chen) and injured the six helicopter passengers. The incident led to
years of civil and criminal action and was responsible for the
introduction of new procedures and safety standards in the filmmaking
industry.The film featured four sequences, one of which was based on
the 1961 Twilight Zone episode "A Quality of Mercy" (S03 E15), named
in supplementary material as "Time Out". In the script, character Bill
Connor (Morrow) is transported back in time to the midst of the
Vietnam War, where he has become a Vietnamese man protecting two
children from American troops.Director John Landis violated
California's child labor laws by hiring seven-year-old Myca Dinh Le
and six-year-old Renee Shin-Yi Chen (Chinese: 陳欣怡; pinyin: Chén
XÄ«nyÃ) without the required permits. Landis and several other staff
members were also responsible for a number of labor violations
connected with other people involved in the accident, which came to
light after the incident.
Dunes in Valencia, Santa Clarita, California, during the making of
Twilight Zone: The Movie. The crash killed three people on the ground
(actor Vic Morrow and child actors Myca Dinh Le and Renee Shin-Yi
Chen) and injured the six helicopter passengers. The incident led to
years of civil and criminal action and was responsible for the
introduction of new procedures and safety standards in the filmmaking
industry.The film featured four sequences, one of which was based on
the 1961 Twilight Zone episode "A Quality of Mercy" (S03 E15), named
in supplementary material as "Time Out". In the script, character Bill
Connor (Morrow) is transported back in time to the midst of the
Vietnam War, where he has become a Vietnamese man protecting two
children from American troops.Director John Landis violated
California's child labor laws by hiring seven-year-old Myca Dinh Le
and six-year-old Renee Shin-Yi Chen (Chinese: 陳欣怡; pinyin: Chén
XÄ«nyÃ) without the required permits. Landis and several other staff
members were also responsible for a number of labor violations
connected with other people involved in the accident, which came to
light after the incident.
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