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Alec Baldwin's fatal movie set accident recalls 'Twilight Zone' tragedy | New York Post
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1:05Now PlayingAlec Baldwin's deadly filmmaking accident is reminding fans of an infamous fatal incident on the set of "Twilight Zone: The Movie" that led to criminal charges and sweeping changes in Hollywood.
The fatal shooting Thursday by Baldwin came nearly 40 years after Tinseltown's deadliest film-set tragedy, in which actor Vic Morrow and two child actors, ages 6 and 7, were crushed by a helicopter while making the "Twilight Zone" flick, which was produced by Steven Spielberg.
Six others were also injured in the 1982 stunt, which involved a simulated mortar explosion that detonated too early, hitting the chopper's rotor blades and forcing it to spin out of control before falling on the actors.
Morrow's "Combat!" co-star Dick Peabody later insisted that his pal's last words had been about his fears over the stunt.
"I've got to be crazy to do this shot. I should've asked for a double," Peabody wrote of Morrow, who was holding the two kids who died alongside him, Renee Shin-Yi Chen and Myca Dinh Le
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