AN aviation influencer died in front of more than 1,000 fans after his ultralight aircraft plunged from the sky in a fireball crash during a livestream.
Tang Feiji was broadcasting on Saturday when his twin-rotor craft suddenly nosedived in Jiange County, central China.
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Horrified viewers flooded the live chat with desperate calls of “save him” and “call the emergency services.”
But the 55-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene from the impact and blaze that followed.
Just moments earlier, he had briefly landed to adjust his camera angle before taking off again.
The influencer was not not wearing a helmet or a parachute at the time of the horror crash.
His livestream account has since been set to private, with only his existing followers still able to access his content.
Multiple Chinese departments are now investigating Tang’s death.
This wasn’t Tang’s first brush with disaster.
He had previously survived two crashes caused by technical failures, including a faulty fuel gauge.
Reports say he bought the aircraft last year for around £36,500.
At the time, he claimed a pilot’s licence wasn’t needed to fly ultralight machines.
But aviation experts insist a licence is required for any low-altitude aircraft – which must also be registered with civil aviation authorities before flying.
It comes after a skydiving instructor tragically died in a “death spiral” plane crash just minutes after eight people safely jumped from his aircraft.
Pilot Paul Smith, 54, was flying back to Moryua Airport in New South Wales, Australia, on Saturday when his plane crashed into bushland.
Smith had been leading a skydive for eight others, all of whom had successfully landed just minutes before the crash, cops said.
He was only 1.2 miles from his destination when the aircraft went down, and tragically died at the scene.
Meanwhile, an architect and two filmmakers were among four killed when a light plane slammed into the ground and exploded in Brazil’s Pantanal wetlands.
The plane went down during a landing maneuver last Tuesday night, exploding on impact and leaving the victims’ bodies charred.
According to the Fire Department, the Cessna 175 — built in 1958 and registered PT-BAN — spun out of control as it approached the runway.
Firefighters rushed to the scene with a tractor and water truck but the aircraft was already engulfed in flames.
KILLED IN THE CRASH WERE CHINESE ARCHITECT KONGJIAN YU, Documentary Filmmakers Luiz Fernando Feres FERAZ AND RUBENS CRISPIM Jr., AND PILOT MARCELO PEREIRA DE BARROS, WHO OWNED THE AIRCRAFT.
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