Flora's son Matteo

http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/90016.html

A 5-year-old Sacramento boy died after falling from a lift at the Aerospace Museum of California in McClellan Park, authorities said. Matteo Wright had gone to the museum with his father Sunday afternoon, when the museum was closed, authorities said. The father, a volunteer at the museum and an avid mountain climber, brought climbing gear with him and hoisted his son on the lift with a harness, according to Sacramento County Sheriff's Department spokesman Sgt. Tim Curran.

According to authorities, the hoist broke and the boy fell. The father took his son to UC Davis Medical Center, where the boy died Tuesday, authorities said. Curran said the death is under investigation, but criminal charges against the father are unlikely.

Roxanne Yonn, a spokeswoman for the museum, said the lift, which was used to hoist jet engines and other heavy equipment, was in a hangar near the main building and that a volunteer was working in the hangar at the time of the accident.
-- Ryan Lillis