As a film director, Alexander Whitrow is no stranger to drama — but even someone with his cinematic sense could not have anticipated the set of his debut movie becoming the scene of a devastating real-life plane crash.
The then-19-year-old was in the middle of filming his indie thriller Roadkill at Renmark in South Australia's Riverland region in 2019 when a light aircraft piloted by his uncle, Tim Whitrow, roared overhead.
Footage taken at the time captured the unscripted sequence of events that followed, in which Tim miraculously survived but broke 12 ribs and lost a foot.
