The death of a camera operator during a stunt that went wrong should have been prevented by the professional standards normally expected on set, his cinematographer father has said.

Doug Milsome spoke on Monday as an inquest opened into the death of his son Mark Milsome. The 54-year-old died during a shoot for the Netflix and BBC drama Black Earth Rising in Ghana in 2017.

“I have shot Bond movies and death-defying action sequences far more complex than the one that killed my son. The standards of professional stunt crew and producers, those who make key decisions, should never have allowed Mark to die that night – a fact,” Milsome, who has worked with the director Stanley Kubrick and on Bond films, told west London coroner’s court.

Mark Milsome’s mother, Debbie, and widow, Andra, also attended the first day of the inquest on Monday, along with his sister Sarah Harrison.

The inquest heard that Mark Milsome was a self-employed camera operator, who was working at the time for the production company Forgiving Earth.

Outlining the circumstances of his death, the senior coroner Chinyere Inyama said: “On Saturday 18 November 2017, there was a shoot. A stunt car, a Land Rover Defender, was supposed to mount a ramp and then topple over. The car mounted the ramp but took off and ploughed into Mr Milsome.”

The camera operator was known for his work on big-screen hits including Quantum of Solace, Cliffhanger and the Constant Gardener.

Dean Byfield, the first assistant director on the production on which Milsome died, said he was in charge of coordinating events on the set. He said there were two unmanned cameras due to film the stunt as well as one that would be operated by Milsome. He told the inquest he had “no misgivings” ahead of the stunt.

Describing the incident, he said that, when the stunt took place, it ended up being “entirely” different from what they were expecting. “It was completely shocking and unexpected, to say the least.”

Byfield said there had not been an “entirely inclusive all-encompassing safety briefing” that night but that it would not have been standard for one to have taken place.

Details were heard about a risk assessment done by the stunt coordinator, completed three days before the 18 November incident. But the family’s barrister Adrian Waterman QC told the court it made “no reference at all to the risk of the vehicle going out of control and hitting someone”.

The inquest also heard that the stunt coordinator was changed after the original person became unavailable, the driver of the car was not well-known to the team and that the Land Rover’s speedometer was broken, although Byfield said he did not know that ahead of the incident.

Waterman said: “Looking back, do you think it would have been better had there been a safety briefing and these things emerged?” Byfield responded: “Had these things emerged, well that’s hindsight, so I don’t know.”

The inquest is due to last until Friday.