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it. done. not. want to burn to death. >> life can get treacherous. >> it's the scariest thing i've ever seen in my life. >> and fast! >> immediately i started spinning out of control. >> how do people react when a normal day -- >> i thought i was going to die. >> take astering turn. >> and i started praying, because that's what i know to do. >> if i'm going to do, i'm going to die trying.
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caught on camera: brace yourself. a small plane struggles to stay aloft. and a pilot desperately looks for a safe place to land while the lives of everyone on board, including a 7-month-old baby, hang in the balance. february 2nd, 2013, logan, utah. cara fielding getting into an airplane for the first time in her life. >> the flight was a birthday present from my parents. i had just turned 22 years old and they arranged this with a family friend of ours who agreed to take me up. >> since the single engine cessna seats four, cara brings along her mother and her husband, jonathan. he suggests their also bring
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their 7-month-old son, jacob. >> i almost begged like, hey, let's bring jacob along. this will be so much fun. everything will be fine. i'll hold him. >> so i relented into letting him bring him up, and that was the most scary part about it, knowing that he was in the plane with us and not buckled. >> in the air, the five of them take in utah's magnificent landscape. >> the weather was the best weather we had had in weeks. it was really exciting. >> but about half an hour into the flight, the pilot has some worrisome news. >> the pilot let us know that something was wrong. >> ice has formed on the carburetor, cutting off the engine from its fuel supply. >> and i didn't believe him, because i know that he's a little bit of a jokester, and it was my first time. >> but this is no joke. >> the engine had severely lost power. he did everything that he was supposed to. he had the carburetor heat on and he pulled it out even more
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to try to rid itself from the ice. >> it's too late. at 8,500 feet, the engine stops running. >> he told us that we're going to have to make a landing out here. we're not going to make it back to the airport. >> the pilot can still steer the plane, but he can't keep it from descending. >> the plane just started gliding. kind of like being on a roller coaster without the rails underneath you. things were really wrong. and i started praying, because that's what i know to do. >> jonathan has a different response. >> i started videoing shortly after he let us know that there was a problem. just had the thought, you know, i think i might want a recording of what i was thinking, what was going through my head. >> he only stops recording when the pilot needs help. >> he told us that we needed to find a place to land. >> we had about four minutes to look out the windows and look for places.
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>> a road would be ideal, but there were so many power lines and the roads turned too quick or there were cars. so he told us that we needed to look for somewhere we could bring the plane down and not involve other people. >> the pilot spots a snow-covered field. everyone on board braces for the landing. >> just got a prayer in our heart, and i think we're going to be just fine. >> jonathan holds his infant son in one hand and starts recording video again with the other. >> as i was filming, i was fully expecting this, just this smooth landing. >> my mind kind of seized up. i was thinking about jacob in the back, and not in a seat belt. >> well, right now we're looking for a place to land. we're looking for a straightaway. all right, we're going to land
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in the field right here. >> is everybody okay? >> yeah. >> when the plane crashed, it was like a whole blur of black and white. everything just spun around. >> the snow is too deep for the plane to glide across the field. the front wheels dig in. and the back summomersaulsomers. they jolt to a stop upsidedown. the camera slips out of jonathan's hands and lands in the front of the plane, still recording. >> when we came to a rest, my very first thought was, i have to get this buckle off to get my baby. >> cara's head slams into the ceiling during the crash and now she dangles by her seat belt with her feet in the air. but her mothering instinct shuts out any pain or trauma she may be feeling. without a second thought, she unlatches her belt. >> i jumped out and screamed for
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jacob and got him and once he was in my arms, i was okay. >> i mean, didn't even have a single scratch. i held on to him the entire time. >> in fact, no one is seriously injured. >> i've just survived a crash landing. >> we were all fine. we just got a little bit of whiplash. afterwards, i grabbed the phone and just documented what was going on. >> carrie, you okay? >> yeah. i'm all right. >> are you going to ever fly again? >> yeah. >> the crash has really affected my life. i feel like i've had a second chance. you know, to live. >> definitely spend more time with jacob, because i could have lost him. >> it's really given us a second chance, really. at appreciating what's most important to us and as family. >> in the end, the only casualty
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of the crash is the airplane. >> the plane is completely totaled. it was beyond repair. >> the pilot's insurance has lapsed the night before. >> jonathan and cara have posted the video of the crash online, hoping it will generate income from youtube ad revenue and licensing. they plan to use their profit to reimburse the pilot. >> he really saved our lives by his experience and knowing what to do. this place could have been a burial ground right out there. pilots don't always have time to prepare for a crash landing. brace yourself. this plane's going down. >> i thought i was going to die. sunday, august 12th, 2012. ida, michigan. ian zawacki is along for a ride
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in his grandfather's small pl b plane, a kick box 7. >> i was excited. i'm always excited to go up in the air and see the town and everything. because it's a really cool experience. >> at 84 years old, willbert mathis has been flying planes for over 60 years. >> i feel that i'm capable of flying. i have friends that are older than i am that are still flying. >> i've never been scared to fly with my grandpa or do anything with him. i trust him with my life. >> ian snaps pictures on his iphone as they cruise over lake erie and neighboring towns. >> it was getting late, so we decided to head back in. >> willbert steers the plane towards a landing strip on a friend's property. ian hits record on his phone. >> i just want to take video of the sunset and of the landing, because i never had before. i thought it was going to be a normal, you know, landing, as usual. >> instead, he catches a terrifying moment on camera.
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>> holy [ bleep ]! the plane clips a telephone wire, sending them into a nosedive towards the grass. >> i just braced myself. it was very, very scary. i literally thought i was going to die, and i was just like, okay, here we go, this is it! >> i was not trying to do anything but ride it out. >> the wing hits the ground first, and then the nose crashes down at a 45-degree angle. >> you okay?! >> ian's phone continues recording audio in the frantic moments after the crash. >> holy [ bleep ]! holy [ bleep ]! you okay?! you okay?! >> my first thought was, wow, this really just happened. how am i not dead? and then, i looked at myself. i was like, okay, everything's working. my body's in tact.
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>> grandpa, are you okay?! grandpa, are you okay?! okay. holy [ bleep ]. >> i was just like, okay, we've got to get out of this plane, because it could blow up. >> ian dislodges himself from the wreckage, but his grandfather is stuck. his legs trapped by equipment that collapsed around them on impact. >> so he lifted my 230 pounds out of the doorway and helped me get out of the airplane. luckily for both of us, we did not have a fire, so we were able to get out of the plane without any further injury. >> help soon arrives on the scene. >> i was just excited that i was alive. he was just mainly mad that he crashed it. >> i felt very sad. instantly, very exasperated, sad. how could i have done this? i'm done flying. i'll never fly again.
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>> the plane was a wreck. >> was ian's biggest concern is his grandfather's health. >> just sit right in the middle. >> okay. >> he could be hurt from internal bleeding, you know, or injuries. i was very scared. he's been one of my greatest mentors throughout my whole, entire life. you know, he's taught me so many things and i don't know where i would be without him. >> doctors give willbert three stitches in his knee and treat him for a fractured sternum. though doctors exam him thoroughly, ian has nothing more than a few small scratches on his shin. ian and his grandfather both recover fully. >> i do have a new outlook on life. i easily could have died. >> ian takes every opportunity to share his video of the crash with friends. >> i use it as a way to show people that, you know, you know, you only have one life to live, so just try to make the best of
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it. >> as for willbert, he just wants to be back in the sky. >> if i had those thoughts, of never flying again, i have since canceled them out. i love to fly and i feel i'm capable of flying and i'm going to fly that airplane again, too, because i've already started rebuilding it. coming up -- >> i was thinking to myself, don't panic. you don't want to die today, stuck in a car. in the nation, we reward safe driving. add vanishing deductible from nationwide insurance and get $100 off for every year of safe driving. we put members first. join the nation. ♪ nationwide is on your side crestor got more high-risk patients' bad cholesterol to a goal of under 100. way to go, crestor! yeah! getting to goal is a big deal,
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crash and burn. >> i definitely do not want to burn to death. that's my biggest fear. >> august 28th, 2013, layton,
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pennsylvania. mike is where he loves to be every saturday night, behind the wheel of race car at the mahoning valley speedway. >> i got interested in racing because my grandfather raced for 30-some years. by the age 11 i already learned how to drive a car. >> at age 26, mike has been racing stock cars for eight years. it's even how he met his wife, marlaina. >> my father was actually on his grandfather's pit crew. he was very honest with me when we first started dating about how racing was his first love, will always be his first love, and that was that. >> it's a passion more dangerous than most. >> i do get nervous a lot, but i know when push comes to shove, he's going to be all right, because he's a good driver. >> marlaina usually watches mike race, but on this night, she's
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at home, watching him eat. >> i'm pregnant and that's part of the reason i stayed home that night. >> mike's cousin, colton perry, is in the stands with their grandfather, taking video of the race. >> i go every saturday. he's pretty fun to watch. >> another camera records from inside the car. about one minute into the race, mike in car number 83, is falling behind. >> we were actually running second lap, and i was trying to work my way up through, and all i remember seeing is a car coming down the track and thinking, man, i'm going for a ride here. and as soon as we touched wheels, i was up in the air. >> flipping over is fairly common in stock car racing. at first, mike isn't worried. >> the impact really didn't hurt. it was just an everyday accident. even though it was my first time going on my side, it was, all
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right, go through your driver checklist and start getting out of the car. >> although mike turns the engine off, fuel drips into the car. >> fuel was dripping out of the carburetor. i figured, if i can get my belts off, i'll climb out of the car and we'll upright because it's probably going to start on fire. >> because he's on his side, mike has trouble removing his seat belt. fuel continues to leak, threatening to ignite at any moment. the pit crew rushes to help him. >> they start asking, are you all right? i keep telling them, i'm fine, but i'm stuck in my seat belt. can you just stand the car up? >> as the crew heaves the car upright, it bursts into flames. the camera continues recording, while the fire spreads. >> i was trapped. it crossed my mind that i could die. >> when the fire started, i was actually really afraid.
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i didn't want to lose him that day. >> by the time they got it on all four wheels, it spread pretty quick. the last couple of seconds, i couldn't see anything in front of me except for yellow. >> i'm thinking to myself, don't panic. if you panic, you're slowing yourself down. just get out of the car as quick as you can. you've got family here, you've got friends here, you don't want to die today stuck in a car. >> in the stands, mike's cousin and grandfather can't see if he's okay. >> it was just a big ball of fire surrounding the car. i was really scared at that moment. >> behind the wall of fire and smoke, a racetrack staff member pulls mike out of the car. >> he's out of the car. >> i did feel in the last couple of seconds, somebody's hand come in and kind of guide me. you know, this is the way out. and as soon as i felt that, that was the way i went. >> after 13 seconds in the overturned car, mike escapes, uninjured.
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some of his rescuers have minor burns. >> they all, you know, singeed their arms a little bit, i guess you could say. and if those guys would have got scared and let that car go, it would have fell back on the side and the fire could have kept getting fuel dumped into it and i probably would have ended up dying. >> as soon as i got a phone call, as to what actually happened, i was there in a heartbeat. when i first showed up at the racetrack, i had people going, oh, my god, thank god you weren't here. that was the most horrible thing we ever saw. i was very shaken up at that point. michael was not shaken up at all. >> mike's car also makes a surprising speedy recovery. >> the car really didn't sustain any injuries, besides cosmetics. it's a miracle, i guess you could say, we got the car back together 25 minutes later. >> there was no if, and, or buts
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about it, he was ready to go. >> mike's back out on the track competing in another race. he comes in fifth. >> i kind of wanted to kick scare in the butt before it had a chance to sit in. i had my greatest fear realized and lived through it. >> later that night, marlaina sees the video recorded inside the car during the crash. >> i couldn't handle it. i literally walked out of the house crying. >> but she still won't get between her husband and his race car. >> i know that's what he loves to do and i would never ask him not to race. >> a true racer has no fear about getting in that car week in and week out. coming up, get ready for impact. and later, a relaxing family vacation? >> oh, my god! salesperson #1: the real deal is the passat tdi clean diesel
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like this on the "dukes of hazard," but this is the real thing. >> it was the scariest thing i've ever seen in my life. >> august 16th, 2013. ingham county, michigan. alexandra sea-ttack, a freshman on her way to dance team practice. >> i was going down the freeway with my window down, because it was hot out. >> glancing to her left, she sees a silver pickup truck with a trailer hitched to the back, and it's speeding into the median lane that separates the two sides of the highway. >> i thought that it was just someone being stupid or trying to be funny, so i got my phone out and thought it would be funny to record it and show my friends later. >> law enforcement officers don't recommend video recording while driving. >> then i saw him, like, go right through a sign on the median, and that's when i
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realized it was probably something serious. >> the median lane abruptly ends. the truck speeds over the edge and disappears into a ravine below. >> as soon as i saw him go over the ledge, i just dropped my phone, because it was crazy. craziest thing i've will ever seen. >> stack pulls off to the side of the road and calls 911. >> at the ingham county sheriff's department, sergeant matthew flint is on duty. >> i'm ship supervisor, so i responded out there. i didn't know if it was going to be a fatality or just a fender bender. i've been doing this 20 years, and i've never seen anything like this. >> examining the accident site, flint can tell that the truck went airborne for about 100 feet and landed squarely on all four wheels in the creek bed below. the airbags deployed, cushioning the driver's landing.
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>> frankly, i was surprised that we didn't have a fatality. >> they identified the driver as 58-year-old mark moreland. >> i think he was in quite a bit of shock. he was talking, but he wasn't making sense. from the time that i arrived on scene, it was about 15 minutes to stabilize mr. moreland down in the creek bed, put him on a backboard, and then he was lifted out with the use of a ladder truck over on to the highway, and he was then placed in an ambulance that was ready to transport to the hospital. >> while momor moreland is rush for emergency care, police are wondering why he sped off the road at more than 60 miles an hour. >> at that point in time, we started looking at the accident scene with some of my investigators. >> eyewitness accounts, along with the trail of debris, offer up some clues. >> he didn't slow down or make
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any evasive turns or anything like that. he just kept his speed. mr. moreland suffered some sort of medical incident prior to him getting launched into the ravine. mr. moreland suffered a partially collapsed lung. he had a lower lumbar fracture, and he had a fractured ankle. >> the driver is expected to make a full recovery from his injuries. >> i was actually very surprised when i found out the driver was still alive, because i had thought for sure that he was either in critical condition or like dead, because it was such a crazy thing. >> you were very fortunate this was a single car accident, no one else was hurt, we didn't have any other residual damage. >> police don't learn about stack's video until a couple of days later, when it goes viral. >> when i saw the video, it just, it solidified what we were seeing at the accident scene.
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live video is a wonderful thing, but i would encourage people not to videotape and drive at the same time, because you're putting other people into harm's way. >> flint believes that moreland owes his life to air bags, his seat belt, and auto engineering. >> technology is a wonderful thing. we have a vehicle that's designed to crumble away, protecting the victim, and it was all captured on video phone. what a wonderful world we live in. coming up, this is it. this is how i'm going to die. >> man versus gravity. >> i thought, this could be your last few moments, does go through your mind. >> when "caught on camera: brace yourself" continues. ings. tiny changes in the brain. little things, anyone can do. it steals your memories. your independence. insures support. a breakthrough.
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i'm milissa rehberger. here's what's happening. the ntsb just updated the latest
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information in the deadly california bus crash. officials say they're looking at several different areas, including the highways, the drivers, and the vehicles. boston officials today announced enhanced safety measures for the final two miles of the boston marathon on april 12st. the mayor and police commissioner say more uniform and undercover officers will be deployed among other measures. now back to "caught on camera." ever have that nightmare where you're falling from the sky? well, wake up! this is really happening. >> i remember thinking in my head, this is it, this is how i'm going to die. >> december 13th, 2006, new zealand. skydiving instructor michael holmes is on his fifth jump of the day. he has a camera built into his helmet to capture first-time
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skydivers as they make their decent. >> it was beautiful conditions and just felt like any other day. >> but you wouldn't be watching this on "caught on camera" if it were any other day. >> things started to go wrong very soon after i activated my main power chute. like, almost immediately. >> holmes' parachute fails to open properly. >> immediately, i started spinning out of control. >> for holmes, this actually isn't cause for concern. it's happened to him eight times before. yes, eight. like all skydivers, he has a reserve parachute. >> so i thought it was up, no big deal, the main parachute is not functioning right, i'll get rid of it. so i pulled the cutaway handle, and that's meant to release me from that parachute. >> it's crucial to get rid of the main chute before opening up
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the backup. otherwise, the two can get tangled, causing the second chute to malfunction as well. but when holmes pulls the release cord, the main parachute doesn't detach. >> i was shocked, and i was like, this is not good. i knew that it was a situation that i could really survive. because you're not trained for this to happen. and that's just not something that's in the book, really. >> above him, holmes' colleague and friend, jonathan king, has just jumped, and is videotaping a client's decent when he notices that holmes is spiraling out of control. king catches a second view of the action on his helmet cam. holmes faces a tough decision. his main parachute, while malfunctioning, is slaightly slowing his decent. if he pulls the reserve
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parachute and it gets caught in the mangled main chute, it will not only fail to open, but it could interfere with the little bit of drag he has and actually speed up his decent. >> it's either going to make it better, it's either going to have the magic, poof, open, slow it all down, crisis averted, or i pull the reserve and it could reduce that drag down and definitely that would have me dead. >> holmes takes a calculated risk, waiting until he's below 1,000 feet to pull the reserve. >> below 1,000 feet, i'm dead anyway. here we go. and i grab the reserve, and i was like, well, nothing else to lose now. if i'm going to die, i'm going to die trying. so that's what i did. >> just as holmes feared, the chutes get tangled. he picks up speed and spins faster, hurtling towards the ground at more than 50 miles an
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hour. >> and i remember thinking in my head, this is it, this is how i'm going to die. i was like, oh, you're kidding me, this is the way i'm going to go! >> in the seconds before landing, holmes remembers the camera on his helmet and uses it to memorialize what he thinks are his last moments alive. >> bye! >> i put a lot of emotion in that last bit, because i thought i was going to die. >> as holmes crashes through a thicket of thorny blackberry bushes and into the ground. >> i remember seeing the ground coming up and then, straight away, once i hit the ground, it just went black, and i was blacked out. >> moments later, king lands nearby, not sure if his friend is dead or alive. >> he was calling out to me and
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i didn't hear anything. >> he was expecting to see a body, not a body that was still able to talk. >> mikey! >> i broke my left ankle in quite an impressive way. there was a bit of bruising all over me. there was blackberry bush into me everywhere. and it collapsed my lung. >> the horrific experience and ensuing injuries are not enough to keep holmes on the ground. after an eight-month recovery, he returns to his skydiving job, performing 10 to 15 jumps a day. >> just like back to normal. i've done it since i was 17, and every single day i go to work, i just love it. it's my life, i love it. >> as long as his parachute
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functions properly, it's a good day. but for this guy, jumping without deploying a parachute is the whole point. >> one mistake when you're close to the ground and you're done. >> it's one of the most daring stunts you'll ever see. and it's caught on camera. may 25th, 2012, penley, england. gary connery is preparing to jump out of a helicopter at 2,400 feet without using a parachute. a film and tv stunt man, as well as an avid b.a.s.e. jumper, connery is no stranger to high-flying feats. >> jumped from the eiffel tower, i've written a bmx bike off beachy head, i've done nelson's column, the london eye, inside the millennium dome.
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>> each of those times, he used a parachute, but this jump is different. if he succeeds, he'll be the first person ever intentionally to skydive without using one. >> connery spent months working with a designer to create a custom wing suit. >> wing suits are basically suits made of simple material. they're double skinned, and then you've got air intakes up on the shoulders here. so it kind of inflates like a double air bed. we made it much thicker, so it allows me to fly much, much slower. >> connery's idea of flow may be different from yours and mine. even with the wing suit, he'll hit the ground at nearly 70 miles an hour. still, he's planning to cushion his landing, using, of all things, a massive row of boxes. >> cardboard's amazing stuff, really, in terms of breaking
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one's fall. my box break was 350 feet long. about 42 feet wide, and probably about 12 feet deep. >> a team of more than 100 friends and supporters spends all morning building the landing area, before connery puts it and himself to the test. >> i remember walking with my wife, across the helicopter, and we had a big hug and a squeeze and a cuddle and a kiss. and she walked off in tears. and that caused me to be in tears. >> it's no surprise connery's wife is concerned. between the years 2000 and 2012, more than 50 people died in wing suit jumps. the helicopter climbs to 2,400 feet, the height of two empire state buildings, if you stacked one on the top of the other, nearly half a mile into the sky. >> certainly, the feeling or the
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thought of this could be your last few moments does go through your mind. >> connery takes the plunge. above him, another jumper catches his decent on a helmet cam while connery's supporters take video from the ground. connery maneuvers his suit to direct him toward the target. he has a parachute he can deploy if he thinks he might miss, but below 100 feet, it won't do any good. >> as i approach the box and getting to that point of sort of no return, where one has to make a commitment or not, i remember everything just settling. >> connery crashes into the boxes and disappears in the pile. for a few sense moments, the crowd is unsure if he's okay.
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then, he emerges without a scratch. connery sets the world record for the highest skydive without a parachute. videos from local news and spectators hit the internet within minutes and go viral. >> i would santa my life has changed dramatically. i'm certainly being asked to do things that in the past i wouldn't have been asked to do. >> things like parachuting dressed as the queen of england into the opening ceremony of the 2012 summer games in london. >> i think everybody likes to test themselves every so often, and i'm no different. it's just that my testing may be goes a little bit higher. >> coming up, holy suckers! >> an unexpected takedown. >> i was absolutely horrified. i didn't know if he was going to be able to get up. >> when "caught on camera: brace yourself," continues.
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wrestlers are used to getting pinned, but not like this. >> holy suckers! >> just thought it was my opponent being really aggressive when he got on me, but it wasn't my opponent. >> what the hell happened there? >> that was the scariest thing, folks, i think i have ever seen. >> holy suckers! >> january 22nd, 2013, madison, south dakota. it's the biggest night of the year for the wrestlers at madison high school. senior michael mccomish has been looking forward to it all year long.
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>> it would be compared like homecoming for wrestling. we turn off all the light in the gym and just have that one spotlight over top of the mat. it lights up the whole match and then the gym is just packed full of kids. >> the "madison daily leader," a local news outlet, is streaming the event live on its website. michael's mother, heather, is up in the stands. >> i love watching michael wrestle. and this was my chance to get to see him under the lights. >> in her excitement, she can't imagine her son facing anything more menacing that be an opponent. >> mike and his competitors step on to the mat. >> we start wrestling. and he got a takedown on me. and we were close to the edge of the mat. >> the wrestlers need to reset. >> when you go out of bounds, you go back to the middle of the
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mat, and you start in a referee's position, which is where you go on your hands and knees and the other person comes on top of you. >> michael gets into position, but before his opponent approaches -- >> holy suckers! >> christ almighty! >> the 80-pound spotlight falls 12 feet on to michael's back. >> i just thought that the guy was being really aggressive, but then it was really bright. >> michael's mother watches helplessly from the stands. >> i was absolutely horrified. i didn't know if he was going to be able to get up. >> holy suckers! >> christ almighty! >> i tried standing up right away and i couldn't get up and i fell back down. and i was just thinking, get it off of me. >> the referee and other wrestler act quickly to pull the heavy light off of michael. >> that was the scariest thing,
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folks, i think i have ever seen. >> i walked off to the side of the mat and told people, you know, my head's bleeding. >> a lightbulb has shattered on michael's forehead. heather rushes down from the bleacher bleachers. >> i wanted to know how badly he was wounded. and what i could see, they had gone through a couple of small towels and he was bleeding right through them. >> right away, i just wanted to get back out there and wrestle. it didn't even really phase me that the light had fallen on me. i just wanted to finish wrestling. >> instead, michael's family rushes him to the hospital, where doctors close the wound on his forehead with stitches and tend to minor cuts on his knees. miraculously, he has no other injuries. since the lights were l.e.d.s, he didn't get burned. >> if michael had been standing, he could have broken his neck. if he had been off to one side and the aluminum frame hit him,
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it could have easily broken bones or we could have lost him. >> what happened? >> the video of michael's accident draws viewers to the "madison daily reader's" website and quickly goes viral. >> my brother actually took it and posted it on a whole bunch of websites for people to see. and within a week, i went from five views and it was like 300,000. and it was like, wow. >> michael's newfound fame earns him a nickname in his small south dakota town. >> people will always call me hollywood and joke around. >> in a couple of weeks, michael's back out on the mat. thee these days, he's more aware of his surroundings. >> now when i get down in referee position, i find myself looking up more often than i used to. >> holy suckers! >> christ almighty! coming up, this dad just can't say no to his little girl.
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brace yourself. parenting dilemma ahead. >> elizabeth, oh, my god! >> may 30th, 2011, pigeon forge, tennessee. steve feeney is on a family vacation with his wife, three kids, and close friends, the winklers. >> the ten of us were just walking down and the kids all saw the ride at this park. >> steve's daughter, grace, loves amusement park rides, and this one was looked like it was right up her alley. >> the name of the ride was the screaming swing. and i was drawn to it, because i just rae love fast rides.
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and i love speed. >> grace did not inherent this trait from her dad. >> i'm terrified of heights and get motion sickness very easily. >> when they reach the front of the line, steve has a tough choice. >> grace was only 10, but you have to have -- be a certain height or you have to have an adult, and there was nobody else there other than me to go on with her. and the lady's like, either get on or get to the back of the line. >> so my dad volunteered to go with me, because he's such a good dad. >> it's a decision he'll soon regret. and one that he'll never forget, thanks to the ride's built-on camera. >> hold on, dad. >> steve braces himself for what's to come. >> as soon as the ride started, i could feel the pressure in my stomach, was a little bit more than i anticipated. >> at first, he tries to stay calm for his daughter. >> ahh! >> but he quickly throws all
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composure to the wind. >> ahhh! >> whoo! >> i was just having a complete blast, and then i looked over and saw my dad. and he was screaming away -- >> i can't take this, elizabeth! oh, my god! >> it just kept getting worse and worse and worse! and i didn't see any -- see the end in sight. >> oh, god! >> finally, i just started screaming for them to stop the ride. >> the ride operator recognizes steve's agony and brings the swing to a stop. >> uh-huh, uh-huh. >> want out? >> yeah. >> but when the operator tells steve his daughter will have to get off with him, he makes a fatherly sacrifice. >> do you want one? >> oh, yeah. >> i'll do it with you, honey. >> she was so looking forward to the ride and i didn't want to disappoint her. >> i was just completely
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shocked, and i was so excited i could stay on and go again. >> steve holds on for dear life. >> somewhere along the line, i cracked my wedding ring all the way through. >> oh, the torture is over, but the moments will live on. >> when we got off the ride, we walked back to the ride where everyone was waiting to get on. there were 30 or 40 people deep in the line and the majority were laughing hysterically. >> they were watching a video of me and grace on the ride. >> total strangers asked to purchase the video for 15 bucks a pop. but they need steve's permission. >> i said, absolutely not. i do not want that thing being floating around on the internet somewhere. >> steve's friend, brian wink r winkler, convinces him they should purchase one copy for themselves. but brian has no intention of keeping this gem a secret.
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>> we thought the video went missing. but apparently, brian stuck the video in his suitcase and took it home and then posted it on youtube. >> ahh! >> to steve's dismay, the video spread around their hometown in illinois. then over the course of a year, it goes viral. steve's captivating performance gets more than 2 million hits on youtube. >> one morning, the "today" show called. >> my biggest fear is heights, so that didn't help a lot. >> have you ever seen him like that before? >> no, not really. >> grace elizabeth, i have two words for you for this summer, all right? bunge jumping. >> all the attention the video has generated for the family has been really cool and fun. wherever we go, we get recognized and people want to talk about it. all three of my kids just think it's a blast. >> ahh! >> whoo!
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>> ahh! >> whoo! i'm trying to make it easy. >> you're not going to get hurt. >> a distraught inmate is placed in the jail's restraint chair. >> i can't breathe. >> now staff must unravel the mystery of what has him so upset. >> please. >> how much time have you done in this jail? >> 31 years. >> a familiar face struggles to exit the jail's revolving door buer

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