The Vic Morrow Syndrome 
2003 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance
"Catching the Vic Morrow Syndrome"
(2 August 2002, Rantoul, Illinois) - Thousands of parachute jumps are made each day at the World Free Fall Convention at the former Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul, Illinois.
Occasionally sky-diving deaths become a reality, but this Darwin candidate wasn't jumping out of a perfectly good aircraft. He was on the ground videotaping his buddy's sky-diving exploits and slipped out a nearby cornfield, after being advised not to, and was taping his pal's helicopter as it was lifting off.
Needless to say, he got a little too close to the aircraft rotor blades as they were tilted forward in a climbing and turning motion and that was all she wrote. His brother, also armed with a video camera, taped the gruesome scene.
According to the Champaign County Coroner, “He was trying to get some unique perspectives as the helicopter took off."
He definitely got a unique perspective.
There is a news story about this event at:
http://www.news-gazette.com/story.cfm?Number=12077 Submitted on 08/04/2002
Submitted by:
Jack W. Briggs
Reference:
Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette
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