One of Hollywood’s Most Shocking Tragedies
The Twilight Zone is the source of one of Hollywood’s most shocking tragedies – an accident that stemmed from poor planning and rule-breaking and ultimately led to the deaths of an industry legend and two child actors. It also changed the way films are made to this day.
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Mere weeks after the whole Twilight Zone trial ended in 1987, one of the case’s five defendants, helicopter pilot Dorcey Wingo, took a visitor on tour around the dusty parking lot of the Western Helicopter Company in Rialto. Wingo had piloted dozens of combat missions in Vietnam – flying was his life. But on this little tour, he was empty. Wingo pointed to a hangar: “That’s where Art Scholl was based,” he said with sorrow in his voice.