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In the accident two children were killed by a helicopter due to explosives firing too early: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_Zone_accident https://en.m

• capableweb 5y ago
  It's also noted in my previous comment "(or their parents chose for them to be in a risky business)". Since children don't have their own willpower legally or otherwise until they become adults, their parents are their guardian and ultimately responsible for them. Their parents chose to participate in something they knew was dangerous. We've always known flight in general is dangerous and when combined with explosives, extra dangerous.
  • claviska 5y ago
    From the Wikipedia link: > All four parents testified that they were never told that there would be helicopters or explosives on set, and they had been reassured that there would be no danger, only noise.
    • capableweb 5y ago
      If me and my kids were to be in a film, and the crew assured me there would be no helicopters or explosives on set, but then I arrive and they tell me to go into a helicopter and that explosives will happen next to it, don't I bear responsibility for accepting that? You make it sound like someone forced the parents and the kids to jump into the helicopter.
      • the_mitsuhiko 5y ago
        They kids were not in the helicopter and the parents were told in the evening before the shooting that it will be just loud but not explosions. The directors specifically hid the kids from fire safety and wellfare officers knowing that what they were doing was illegal. Quite honestly the entire story is sickening if you read the reports about it.