A gender reveal in Mexico turned deadly Saturday when a stunt plane involved within the celebration crashed in front of oblivious partygoers.
In a video posted to X (formerly Twitter), the unidentified joyful couple might be seen clasping hands in front of an enormous lit sign reading “Oh Baby” while surrounded by family and friends.
The doomed Piper PA-25-235 Pawnee fills the San Pedro sky with pink smoke, while confetti appears to be shot out of a cannon on the bottom.
The plane’s left wing seems to cave in because the pilot — who was later identified as Luis Ángel N., 32 — pulls the small plane upwards, sending the aircraft spiraling uncontrolled.
Meanwhile, on the bottom, attendees seem totally unaware of the terrifying ordeal unfolding within the sky.
According to an area news outlet, authorities found the pilot lying within the wreckage of the plane after a concerned partygoer called for help.
Paramedics rushed him to the hospital, where he died.
The tragic video has since gone viral and reignited the controversy surrounding gender reveals.
“These gender reveal parties are getting out of hand when people die annually due to them,” slammed one X user.
“The way in which the camera panned back to the couple with not the slightest care on the earth for the pilot is gloomy,” wrote one disgusted user.
“For a moment I actually thought all of the screaming was because they saw the plane,” stated a 3rd. “But no, it looks and seems like only the cameraman noticed (not less than initially).”
Some X users also speculated about what caused the plane to suffer such a surprising fate.
“Look rigorously on the timing of the sudden upward movement, it exactly coincides with the CO2 cannon firing on the bottom,” argued one eagle-eyed user. “It seems to me that the aircraft was literally blasted out of the sky.”
“Looks like structural fatigue caused that climb to barely pull enough g’s to cause such a thing,” identified a second person, while a 3rd said the pilot “overstressed the wings.”
This will not be the primary time a gender reveal has gone horribly improper.
In 2020, a celebration sparked a deadly wildfire in California that raged across 10,000 acres of land.
One other couple got here under fire when their “oh baby” sign sent torrents of pink smoke and confetti into the air as several sparklers nearly ignited the encircling trees.
An Australian family set their automotive ablaze in 2019 due to special tires designed to blow blue smoke to announce their baby’s gender.
The gender announcement tragedies led mommy blogger Jenna Karvunidis — widely credited with “inventing” all these celebrations — to apologize for sparking the movement.
“Who cares what gender the infant is?” Karvunidis wrote in a viral July 2019 Facebook post.
“Assigning deal with gender at birth leaves out a lot of their potential and skills that don’t have anything to do with what’s between their legs.”
