An 88-year-old retiree from Kirov Oblast, Russia, met a tragic end while testing his homemade helicopter. Video footage of the incident captures the moment when, as the elderly man sat inside the aircraft preparing for takeoff, the helicopter unexpectedly disintegrated. The force of the disintegration propelled him several meters away, resulting in his untimely death. The deceased, identified as Lapetnikov, was a self-taught inventor with a remarkable track record of successfully constructing and flying multiple homemade aircraft.