Archive for the ‘The Volcano Files’ Category

From the API wire archives, 10/15/81 Five Dead in Small Plane Crash on Mexico’s Carribean Coast MEXICO CITY (API) — Five people, including four members of the crew of a U.S. film production, died when their chartered amphibious plane crashed into the jungle near the Caribbean city of Chetumal, south of Cancun, Mexican authorities reported [...]

From the L.A. Times archive, 10/05/81: Studio Pyrotechnic Mishap Kills Noted Choreographer LOS ANGELES (API) – Arson investigators and officers from the LAPD bomb squad treated a soundstage at the 20th Century-Fox studios like a war zone after an indoor pyrotechnics display blew up prematurely, killing a choreographer and injuring two others. Investigators swept stage [...]

From the L.A. Daily News archives, 10/03/81 Producer Killed in Grand Canyon Auto Plunge GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, ARIZ. (API) — Film and television producer Felix Roman, 42, was killed Wednesday when a rental car he was driving plunged over the edge of the Grand Canyon and fell 600 feet to his death. Roman was [...]