MONSTER'S BALL Screenwriter Jumps from Crashing Plane & Nearly Eaten By Sharks!
September 20th, 2005
“Monster’s Ball” screenwriter Milo Addica had to parachute from a malfunctioning aircraft during a flying lesson recently and spent more than 90 minutes in shark-infested waters off California. His instructor, who also baled out, was found dead in the water. Addica, 42, was picked up by a pleasure boat and treated for hypothermia. They had been flying a Robin light aircraft from the California Flight School in San Diego to Catalina Island, about 20 miles from Los Angeles.
The pilot made a distress call when the aircraft was at 1,000ft and coming into land at the island last Wednesday. Coastguard patrol boats and helicopters began searching the waters and discovered the pilot lying face down in the water.
Addica had spent more than an hour and a half in the Pacific, before being rescued by a passing boat. He was then picked up by the coastguard, flown to the Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, where he was found to be suffering from mild hypothermia and released later that day. Tony Migliorini, a coastguard spokesman, said it was remarkable that the screenwriter suffered no injury. He said that he had never heard of someone surviving after parachuting from such a small plane at such a low height. A 50-year-old man was decapitated by a shark last August in these same waters.
The pilot made a distress call when the aircraft was at 1,000ft and coming into land at the island last Wednesday. Coastguard patrol boats and helicopters began searching the waters and discovered the pilot lying face down in the water.
Addica had spent more than an hour and a half in the Pacific, before being rescued by a passing boat. He was then picked up by the coastguard, flown to the Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, where he was found to be suffering from mild hypothermia and released later that day. Tony Migliorini, a coastguard spokesman, said it was remarkable that the screenwriter suffered no injury. He said that he had never heard of someone surviving after parachuting from such a small plane at such a low height. A 50-year-old man was decapitated by a shark last August in these same waters.
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