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This article originally appeared on VICE Canada.
A Canadian "stunt rapper" died after falling off the wing of a plane during a video shoot in British Columbia this week.
Jon James McMurray, who is under the name Jon James, died on Monday after complications during the stunt. According to a statement his management team gave to press, McMurray was set to film a scene for the video where he would be a rapping on the wing of a plane-it was something he "trained intensively for."
"However, as Jon got over the wing of the plane, it caused the Cessna to go into a downward spiral that the pilot could not correct," his management team said. he let go, he did not have time to fall in. He impacted and died instantly. "
The plane eventually landed safely. McMurray's body in a farmer's field, an hour outside of Kamloops, BC. The farmer found the body told Global News that after seeing people searching fields, they searched for their own and found the body of McMurray "in a crater."
His management team told the Globe and Mail that McMurray grew up in Calgary. While skiing, McMurray was the first to land a "Fizzle Flip" spinning backflip between rails. After his injury though was McMurray turned his gaze to music and combined with his love for stunts.
Some of McMurray's music videos One of the most viewed videos was a song called "Hello" and to film the video with Travis Pastrana and his Nitro Circus crew. It featured McMurray rapping while skydiving and the climax of the video is McMurray base jumping off a bridge from the top of a moving tractor trailer.
Friends and family have been writing tributes to the rapper. In the statement, his management team said McMurray was an "incredibly passionate person who was always smiling," had a heart of gold "and" never spoke poorly about another person. "
Rory Bushfield, a professional snowboarder and former friend of McMurray, wrote a tribute on Facebook to McMurray, saying he was "living his ultimate dream, free and full." He said the two grew up, skiing, filming, and messing around with cameras.
"As much as Jon James loved music and skiing and flipping, he loved cameras," reads the post. "When we met at age 14 he had a camera and he used every chance he got every day until last Saturday when he was using 12. He rolled around every day with chargers for numerous devices. He would say things like 'it's better than nothing' when we were just messing around and shot a funny video. "
The final video on McMurray's YouTube page, which was posted two weeks ago, showed Bushfield and McMurray skydiving and base jumping in Squamish, BC. In a weird twist of fate the final moments of the final video on his page shows the best of the best heels ever had. (It was from the extreme athlete Cody Matechuk).
"I asked Matechuk, 'how high should I jump from this base jump,' he's like 'I dunno, pull before you hit the ground,'" said McMurray.
Bushfield wrote that he joined some of McMurray's family and friends in Go-Fund-Me to use the "hundreds of hours of music and footage" he left behind in a tribute to the man.
McMurray's death is being investigated by the Transportation Safety Board and the BC Coroners Service.
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