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- In 1965, he came out of retirement to fly a plane for The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) and was killed in a crash.
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Mantz died on July 8, 1965, while working on the movie The Flight of the Phoenix, which was 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.
Jan 19, 2008 · Paul Mantz was a famous stunt pilot who died while filming the 1965 movie "Flight of the Phoenix". Watch this video to see the footage of his fatal crash and learn more about his life and career.
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The morning of July 8, 1965, Mantz was flying the Tallmantz Phoenix P-1, the machine that was "made of the wreckage", performing touch-and-go landings for the cameras, when the fuselage buckled during a touchdown. The movie model broke apart and cartwheeled, killing Mantz and seriously injuring stuntman Bobby Rose.
The Phoenix's take-off was considered too dangerous to stage at the sandy filming location (its actual take-off was from a smoothed, compacted-earth runway), so legendary stunt pilot Paul Mantz was asked to do a "touch-and-go" landing in which he came in low, skimmed his landing gear along the ground, then throttled up to gain altitude, merely ...
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Sep 1, 2004 · Twentieth Century-Fox needed a special aircraft for “The Flight of the Phoenix,” a film starring Jimmy Stewart as the pilot of an aircraft that crashes in the Sahara, and then has to supervise the survivors in designing a flyable plane from the wreckage.
Paul Mantz ... stunt double: James Stewart (uncredited) / stunts (uncredited) Ted Mapes ... stunts (uncredited) Bob Rose ... stunt double: Richard Attenborough (uncredited) / stunts (uncredited)
This resulted in the death of pilot Paul Mantz, who is eulogized at the end of the film. The aircraft had been built specifically for use in The Flight of the Phoenix.
