(ProsperNews.net) – A pilot died in Mexico when a “gender reveal party” went wrong. The expectant parents constructed a large sign saying, “Oh Baby” and surrounded it with pink and blue balloons. A plane would soon pass overhead and sprinkle colored dust into the air – the color of which would reveal whether the baby was a boy or a girl.
When the aircraft arrived and sprayed pink dust, signaling a girl, a group of guests cheered excitedly. Immediately after the pink dust was sprayed, one of the plane’s wings appeared to collapse, and after the pilot flew over the crowd, he and the airplane disappeared behind trees.
Authorities in Navolato, in the Sinaloa state, say they treated the pilot at the scene and transported him to hospital. He died hours later and has been identified as 32-year-old Luis Ángel. Nobody else was harmed, and a video of the event went viral on social media.
Commentators on Twitter speculated as to what may have gone wrong. One tweeter wrote, “If you watch the video in slow motion, you can see he pulled really hard on the stick. Overstressed the wings.” Another said, “He pulled back on the stick way too hard. Probably exceeded the airplane’s operational limits.”
Gender reveal parties are fashionable but appear to be strangely ill-fated. In 2020, for example, a couple set an enormous fire in motion that killed a firefighter and ended in charges of involuntary manslaughter. A pyrotechnic device used to spray colored dust caused a blaze in San Bernardino, destroying 30 square miles and at least ten buildings. Similar fires with the same source raged across Arizona in 2017 and Florida in 2020.
Between 2019 and 2021, a dad died in New York when a pyrotechnic device exploded, and another was killed by a cannon stunt in Michigan the same month. A female bystander died when struck by debris in Iowa, and an expectant father was killed when a dust-delivering plane crashed in Texas.
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