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** A similar incident happened on the set of ''Delta Force 2'' two years later. Five people (including a cameraman and one of the actors) were killed in a helicopter accident and two others were injured when the engine failed. Both films had the same lead, director and producers.

* Famous stunt pilot Paul Mantz was killed in the filming of ''[[The Flight of the Phoenix]]'' when he misjudged the rate of descent and crashed into a small hillock.

* In October 2011, a currently unnamed stuntman [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15499964 died while filming a stunt for] ''[[The Expendables|The Expendables II]]'' in Bulgaria.

* On August 2, 1920, during the filming of the silent film ''The Skywayman'', stunt pilots Ormer Locklear and Milton "Skeets" Elliott were flying a biplane during a nighttime shoot. At the end of the scene, they were supposed to make it look like they crashed the plane. The sky was lit with several floodlights. Locklear had instructed that, because he would not be able to see the ground at night, the floodlights had to be turned off as they approached the ground so he would know to pull up. For some reason, this instruction was ignored. Locklear and Elliott died when the plane hit the ground going at full throttle.

=== [[Radio]] ===

* Radio traffic reporter Jane Dornacker of WNBC in [[New York City]] died on October 22, 1986, when [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e6sfiylUGY her helicopter crashed] right in the middle of her traffic report.

** It's likely that she yelled for her pilot to hit the water because six months earlier she had been in a similar helicopter crash while doing a traffic report. That helicopter crashed into the Hackensack River in New Jersey. Both she and her pilot survived and were able to swim to shore. However, in the second crash the helicopter clipped a chain-link fence and flipped over, trapping Dornacker and her pilot underwater in the Hudson River. (Her pilot was seriously injured, but survived.)

* Radio traffic reporter Bruce Wayne (Bruce F. Talford) of KFI in [[Los Angeles]] died on June 4, 1986, shortly after the KFI traffic plane took off from the Fullerton Airport.

* In ''[[The Boondocks]]'', rapper Gangstalicious is shot on stage. Unfortunately, he was performing his hit single "I Got Shot" at the time, and it was [[All Part of the Show|forty-five minutes before anyone realized something was wrong]].

* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' pokes fun at this trope and [[The Scottish Trope]] in one fell swoop, when the family meets Sir [[Ian McKellen]] and Homer doesn't catch on to the matter at all.

"It's bad luck to say ''that'' too!" *A chunk of the theater sign falls on him* }}

* Not actually acting, but the example from ''The Spy Who Loved Me'' was parodied in the [[Cold Open]] of ''[[American Dad]]'''s James Bond-themed episode "Tearjerker", wherein Stan is helping a British agent out of a jam, only to accidentally crush said agent with his snowmobile after they both jump off a cliff and activate their parachutes.