who died during the filming of flight of the phoenix
Albert Paul Mantz
title: The Flight of the Phoenix (1965 film) text: an oasis with a manned oil rig, the men celebrate and Towns and Dorfmann are reconciled. Principal photography started April 26, 1965, at the 20th Century-Fox Studios and 20th Century-Fox Ranch, California. Other filming locations, simulating the desert, were Buttercup Valley, Arizona and Pilot Knob Mesa, California. The flying sequences were all filmed at Pilot Knob Mesa near Winterhaven, located in California's Imperial Valley, on the western fringes of Yuma, Arizona. In 2005, Hollywood aviation historian Simon Beck identified the aircraft used in the film: The C-82As were from Steward-Davies Inc. at Long Beach, California, while the O-47A came from title: Flight of the Phoenix (2004 film) text: but Rady (Kevork Malikyan) explains that July is the hottest month in the Gobi, and that he won't make it. In the middle of the night, Davis (Jared Padalecki) goes out to urinate without informing anybody, trips, gets lost in a sandstorm, and dies. The group panics after a failed search for him, and Kelly (Miranda Otto) argues with Frank, who says that walking out of the desert would fail and that their only option is to await rescue. The group initially agrees but reconsiders after Elliot, claiming to be an aeronautical engineer, pitches a radical idea: rebuild the wreckage title: The Flight of the Phoenix (1965 film) text: landings, and on one touchdown the fuselage buckled. The movie model broke apart and cartwheeled, killing Mantz and seriously injuring stuntman Bobby Rose on board. Although principal photography was completed on August 13, 1965, in order to complete filming, a North American O-47A (N4725V) from the Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino, California was modified and used as a flying "Phoenix" stand-in. With the canopy removed, a set of skids attached to the main landing gear as well as ventral fin added to the tail, it sufficed as more-or-less a visual lookalike. Filming using the O-47A was completed in title: Paul Mantz text: Mantz stepped in to finish the aerial scenes for one last movie project. Mantz died on July 8, 1965 while working on the movie "The Flight of the Phoenix", produced and directed by Robert Aldrich. Flying a very unusual aircraft, the Tallmantz Phoenix P-1 built especially for the film, Mantz struck a small hillock while skimming over a desert site in Arizona for a second take. As Mantz attempted to recover by opening the throttle to its maximum, the over-stressed aircraft broke in two and nosed over into the ground, killing Mantz instantly. Bobby Rose, a stuntman standing behind Mantz title: The Flight of the Phoenix (1965 film) text: Scot; Carlos (Alex Montoya) and his pet monkey; and Gabriel (Gabriele Tinti). A sudden sandstorm disables the engines, forcing Towns to crash-land in the desert. As the aircraft careens to a stop, several oil drums and oil drilling tools break loose and severely injure Gabriel's leg. Two other workers are killed. The radio is unusable, and the survivors are too far off-course to be found and rescued. They have a large quantity of pitted dates for food, being returned "because no one would eat them" but only with enough water to last for ten to fifteen days even if they