When catastrophe struck, Christopher Duddy was shooting a movie in Hawaii. For 28 hours he choked on fumes near a lava lake, dealing with to get to security
The 1993 erotic thriller Sliver need to have finished in different ways: Zeke, played by William Baldwin, was scripted to fly a helicopter in the direction of an active volcano, after Sharon Stone’s character, Carly, reveals she’s the killer. The pilot, Craig Hosking, had been charged with flying low over Hawaii’s Kīlauea volcano, accompanied by the director of photography, Mike Benson, and his assistant Christopher Duddy, to film the bubbling lava and white plumes of smoke leaving from the Puʻu ʻŌʻō vent. It was a clear day on the Big Island when Duddy viewed a curl path type in the smoke behind the helicopter, and he keeps in mind thinking: “I can not believe I’m getting paid to do this.”
It was November 1992, and a big tornado was due to hit the location, so they were shooting as much footage as they could along the shore, recording the rain forest and great blue ocean shimmering versus the black lava of the volcano, prior to the weather interrupted production. As they dipped over Puʻu ʻŌʻō for a 2nd time, the helicopter’s engine stopped working. Their presence faded as thick smoke engulfed them. Duddy jolted his eyes away from the video camera checks towards the open doors and saw that they were heading straight for a cliff. There was a loud accident as the blades sheared off on impact and the helicopter entered into freefall.
Source: The Guardian