Stuntman strapped beneath airplane plummets 500ft to loss of life as belt snaps mid-flight

A stuntman who some mentioned had a “death wish” plummeted 500 toes to his loss of life after strapping himself to the underside of a airplane.

Aussie stuntman Jim Bailey, generally known as The Human Torpedo, met his tragic finish when the belt attaching him to the underside of the airplane snapped mid-flight throughout the harmful trick.

Shocking footage of the incident exhibits the second the belt breaks, forcing Bailey to carry onto the bars beneath the airplane for expensive life earlier than, after just a few seconds, he loses his grip.

READ MORE: How ‘miracle’ passengers made it off Japan Airlines Flight with ‘glorious crew’

For extra of the newest information from the Daily Star, click on right here.

Witnesses mentioned Bailey, a Brisbane resident, was suspended beneath a single-engine Ballanca by a strap and belt. The goal of the stunt was for Bailey to hold beneath the airplane throughout take-off and slide to a touchdown when the airplane made a “touch-and-go” on the strip, as beforehand reported.

Authorities mentioned Bailey was doing the stunt for ABC-TV’s That’s Incredible present throughout the April 1, 1981, incident – however the present’s producer denied having any connection to the accident.

He had appeared twice on the present and in an episode that January, just a few months earlier than his loss of life, Bailey was dragged behind a automotive and crashed head-first by a flaming wall – however he survived. The yr earlier than in December he was once more dragged by a automotive going 165mph earlier than skidding 1,300 toes alongside a pavement.

Producer of That’s Incredible Alan Landsburg mentioned of the Hawaii stunt that resulted in Bailey’s loss of life: “We have nothing going in Hawaii, we’re not working there. We’ve been on hiatus for about three and one-half weeks.

“We completed our season and we do not begin capturing till June. ‘The accident clearly shocks us, however there isn’t any manner it might have been our crew filming. I let you know it was not our shoot. The accident was not even remotely related with ‘That’s Incredible’.”

Landsburg added it was doable the incident was being filmed by a personal firm and Bailey later deliberate to promote the movie to That’s Incredible.

“We’ve set absolute limits on what we’ll buy due to the accident factor,” he mentioned. “We’ve had just a few accidents and we did not need any others. We made it very clear that we would not contemplate that sort of out of doors buy.”

For the newest breaking information and tales from throughout the globe from the Daily Star, join our e-newsletter by clicking right here.

The Daily Star beforehand reported {that a} 16-year-old woman survived a airplane crash solely to be run over twice and killed by a hearth struck responding to the scene of the incident moments later.

Ye Meng Yuan was sitting at the back of the airplane and is believed to have been ejected onto the tarmac of the airport the place later she was struck and killed by the emergency car, in response to the San Mateo County Coroner’s Office.

Police mentioned {the teenager} was lined in foam rescuers had sprayed on the burning wreckage of the Asiana Flight 214 that crash-landed at San Francisco International Airport on July 6, 2013, having travelled from South Korea. Read the complete story right here.