He was killed in a tragic accident at the age of 24.

他24岁时在一次悲惨的事故中丧命。

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He once confessed that he had mastered the feat when he was only 10 years old, during a time of great mental turmoil after his own father had been killed in an airplane accident.

他曾经承认当他只有10岁的时候就已经掌握了这个惊人的技艺，那段时间由于他的父亲在一场空难中丧生，他沉浸在一种巨大的精神焦虑中。

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He gave the old man a suit of clothes and he gave his overcoat to a pregnant woman whose husband had been killed in a mining accident.

他给了这个老人一套衣服，给了一位孕妇一件外套，因为她的丈夫已在矿难中遇难。

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He talks about the tragedy which changed his life, how his father was killed in a tractor accident and how then he helped his mum breed the cattle.

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The South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard had become a medical superstar just a few months earlier, when he successfully transplanted the heart of a young woman who was killed in a car accident.

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Payne Stewart's name has been withdrawn from the world rankings, four weeks after he was killed in a plane accident.

BBC: Stewart's name withdrawn