Before passing away on Wednesday at the age of 103, Kirk Douglas had a brush with death that he said had “forever changed” his life.
In his 2000 memoir Climbing the Mountain: My Search for Meaning, the Hollywood icon opened up about the mid-air collision on Feb. 13, 1991, that took the lives of two men. As one of the three survivors of the fatal crash, Douglas wrote that the incident made the date “the most important day of my life.”
On the fateful day, Douglas was a passenger in a helicopter flown by his pilot friend, cartoon voice artist Noel Blanc, and copilot Michael Carra.
In his 2000 memoir Climbing the Mountain: My Search for Meaning, the Hollywood icon opened up about the mid-air collision on Feb. 13, 1991, that took the lives of two men. As one of the three survivors of the fatal crash, Douglas wrote that the incident made the date “the most important day of my life.”
On the fateful day, Douglas was a passenger in a helicopter flown by his pilot friend, cartoon voice artist Noel Blanc, and copilot Michael Carra.
- 2/6/2020
- by Gabrielle Chung
- PEOPLE.com
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