ANDY LAU - LAU FINED OVER HELICOPTER INCIDENT

LAU FINED OVER HELICOPTER INCIDENT

Hong Kong actor ANDY LAU has been ordered to pay 5.1 million Taiwan dollars ($170,000/GBP85,000) to a Taiwanese airline after damaging its helicopter during filming.
The star is reported to have accidentally brushed the aircraft, loaned by Daily Air, after performing a stunt which saw him jump out of the airborne helicopter for 1997 movie The Island of Greed.
Lau's stunt unsteadied the aircraft, causing the rotor blade to hit lighting equipment, according to officials at Shihlin District Court in Taipei on Tuesday (15Apr08).
The lawsuit was filed by Daily Air in 1998 but the case had taken so long to come to court because the defendants were in Hong Kong.
Wong Chung-jing, the movie's producer, was ordered to pay Daily Air 2.55 million Taiwan dollars ($84,000/GBP42,000) plus compensation of the same amount to be shared with Win's Entertainment Ltd, which released the film.