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By now, I am sure all of you have heard about the PINK accident. I would like to take a few moments to talk about this. Lets start by looking at the video:
So was this a rigging failure, or an operator failure?
Lets start by looking at 0:42. You see her left hand goes up, and then at about 0:46 her left hand goes down This motion looks like it was the “GO” cue. A split second later, at 0:47 you see PINK look to the right and puts up her right hand, seemingly to say hold, followed by common crossed arms “E-STOP” sign. Moments later, Pink is moving, and at 0:51 the motion has stopped. You can see two people pulling two of the flying lines back towards the stage after her fall.
To my eye, this looks like Pink signaled a GO before she was properly clipped in, and then tried to abort. I would say she is very lucky that she wasn’t hurt a lot more seriously.
This view would seem to be supported by PINK’s tweet: “To all my nurnberg fans… I am embarrassed and very sorry. I’m in ambulance now but I will b fine. Didn’t get clipped in2 harness correctly, drug me off stage, fell in2 barricade. Getting x rays. I hope it at least looked cool!!!”
As a rigger, this didn’t look cool at all. I am glad PINK is OK, but let this be a lesson to all of us: Don’t give a “GO” signal until you really are ready to go!
PBS has posted a two and one half minute preview of their new fall series CIRCUS on Youtube. The documentary follows Big Apple Circus during the entire 2008 – 2009 season.
Japan’s “first ladies of illusion” stars Ai and YuKi, two performers that have been amazing audiances in Japan for years. On Thursday, an aerial accident put them both in the hospital. KTNV and Fox 5 Vegas have stories on the fall. A video of the fall is also available
A quick review of the video looks like it was performer error. Thoughts?
