A horrific accident in India killed a Chicago area tech CEO and seriously injured the company’s president, and the whole thing was caught on video.

What was designed to be a celebration of success turned tragic when CEO Sanjay Shah, 56, and the company president, Raju Datla, 52, fell 15 feet in front of a packed audience at a party for employees of Vistex, a software company based in Hoffman Estates, Ill.

One of the highlights was an aerial show. A specially designed stage made of wood was elevated 20 feet above the concrete stage using a crane. Shah and Datla were in an iron cage.

They were supposed to be lowered, but the iron chain supporting the cage broke on one side, causing them to fall 15 feet onto the main stage.

  • @Bonesince1997
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    3810 months ago

    Idk about billionaire, but the Bed Bath Beyond CEO threw himself out a window just before the company failed, maybe a couple years ago now.

    • Chainweasel
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      2310 months ago

      But a normal person could die that way easily, what we need is ways in which people died that wouldn’t have been possible without a fuckton of money.
      A normal person couldn’t afford a $250,000 trip to the bottom of the ocean or a party with a stage elevated by a crane.

    • @Hotdogman
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      810 months ago

      I’ll accept single pane glass in a high rise.

      • themeatbridge
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        1010 months ago

        What’s the movie where they have an executive get onto a conference table and run through a window, and then later another exec does exactly the same thing but they’ve replaced the glass and he just bounces off, and the people in the meeting juat continue with work?

    • @soren446
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    • @june
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      210 months ago

      Oh what about the Segway owner driving a Segway off a cliff? I don’t think he was a billionaire but there were quite a few less 13 years ago, and he was worth $438 million USD, so maybe he can count too?