Four Hollywood cameramen - George Eastman, Otho Jordan, Conrad Wells and Ben Frankel - were killed on the same day, making the same movie, when their camera planes collided and fell into the Pacific Ocean off the Southern California coast while filming Such Men Are Dangerous. Six others, including the film's director, were also killed.
Ten crew members were killed during production when two aircraft en route to the shooting location collided.
The director, Kenneth Hawks, was one of the ten killed in the midair collision during retakes. He was the brother of Howard Hawks.
The making of this film ended in appalling tragedy, with the loss of 10 lives. On 2 January at Santa Monica, with the film already completed, director Kenneth Hawks (brother of Howard) embarked on a series of retakes for a flying scene with he was dissatisfied. Two airplanes, carrying the film crew to photograph a third which features in the movie, collided in the air.burst into flame and hurtled into Pacific Ocean bellow. Director Hawks was killed, together with his two cameramen, the property man, the grip and several assistants.