Twlight Zone Accident | It's Going to be Big

Lindsey Graham· Host0:00

American Scandal uses dramatizations that are based on true events. Some elements, including dialogue, might be invented, but everything is based on historical research. None of the brands mentioned in the editorial content of this episode have endorsed, sponsored, or are connected with American Scandal or its producers in any way. [upbeat music] It's July fifteenth, nineteen eighty-two, in the city of Rialto, California, fifty miles east of Los Angeles. Thirty-seven-year-old Dan Allingham pulls up alongside a low-slung building on the edge of the local airport. Allingham is the unit production manager on the John Landis segment of Twilight Zone: The Movie, and in his role as UPM, Allingham is responsible for day-to-day logistics on the production, which is already shooting back in LA. But today, his job has taken him to the offices of Western Helicopters. This charter company earns most of its money moving heavy equipment or helping farmers with crop control, but Western also has a growing sideline supplying aircraft to the movie business. The company owns a Huey helicopter that would be perfect for Landis's big Vietnam War finale, and its low rates have caught the attention of the Twilight Zone team. At eight hundred dollars an hour, Western charges a third less than more established companies,