with a giant rock, or maybe it's a couple ducklings walking across. all the world may be a stage, but there's no telling when life will radically depart from the script. in illinois, a man is trampled by a panicked horse. while another in north carolina struggles to escape a deadly inforni inferno. >> oh, my gosh. >> then a fourth of july celebration goes explosively off course. while taking off in a jet turns into a fight between life and death. >> and falling from 9,000 feet, two sky divers struggle to free

themselves before it's too late. >> you have to do something or you're going to die. >> sometimes the best laid plans can take a turn for the weird. "caught on camera, what went wrong." >> welcome to "caught on camera" i'm contessa brewer. sometimes all it takes is for one tiny detail to be off and in a split second, a routine event can escalate into a life or death drama, leaving folks to wonder what went wrong. it can happen at work or play or as these people found out, during a leisurely day during a horse show. at official at a horse competition gets trampled by an out of control horse. may 2nd, 2001. springfield, illinois. at the arabian breed regionals,

drivers move their horses into the ring to compete in a class calls country pleasure driving. videographer is there to capture the event. >> they're driving, it's a very neat class. the horse is judged on it should look like a pleasure to drive. >> one of the riders here to compete on this day is paul. >> he loves to show off. riding a horse. you sit on top of the horse on the saddle. and stirrups and reins. so you really control a horse with your legs and with your arms. it's much easier to control them that way. when you drive, you oenly have reins and the horse is way out in front. you really don't control as much as when you're riding. >> the competition begins as planned when paul drives his horse into the ring with the others. but then his horse begins to speed up. >> all of a sudden, he's

starting to canter, and that's a big sign that something is wrong. >> walk, please. walk your horse to the time-out. >> he pulls the reins to stop, but it's no use. >> i hit the other cars and i got thrown out. he was on his own, and he really freaked out. >> the horse went in a total panic because he had a loose cart behind him just banging and turning upside down. >> veteran horse trainers chuck and his son matt trained paul's horse for the event. >> bring your horses to the inside. bring the horses to the inside, please. >> the tips cart panicked the horse even more. paul and the others scrambled to the center to avoid the one-ton animal. the buggy finally shakes loose, but paul's horse still won't stop. >> nothing scarier than a horse that is totally lost his mental capabilities and didn't care what he did or who he ran over. >> the stampeding horse nearly runs over a man. then another man tries to grab

the loose reins, but that only makes matters worse. paul's horse crashes into a second horse. his horse falls down. then gets back up and bolts again. >> the horse was scared to death. no one was going to stop him unless they grabbed his head and pulled him to the ground. >> everyone's shocked by what happens next. >> if the horse comes underneath my camera location, one of the ringman threw himself at the horse. that's a ton of animal coming at you. that was a brave act. he was doing what he could as a ringman to save the rest of the class. >> all the horseman love him to death. he had just had open heart surgery that spring, so we were all concerned it was the end of buck. >> fortunately, it was not. >> uncle bob is okay, but paul's horse is still completely out of control. it runs straight at a horse

whose driver is disabled and can't exit the buggy. but a judge scares it off by tossing papers at it. >> all horses are herd animals. when in a panic situation, they're more comforted in another animal or a person. the horse was running free. he just wanted to get near another horse and have the comfort of that. >> shouts and screams by onlookers spook paul's horse even more. >> keep quiet. please keep quiet. >> it makes another run at the same horse, and this time, it slams right into it and its disabled driver. a judge grabbed paul's horse, finally stopping him. and chuck's son matthew frees the disabled driver just as the second horse bolts and continues the bedlam. >> we need a medic, please. >> my son matthew was there in the ring with me, and he had the instinct to grab her out of the cart before the horse took off or that could have been a life threatening situation. >> that's a miracle.

watching it unfold, it's surrealistic, and the one horse charges into arth horse. and stops, and the second horse takes off. my mind was like, oh, good, a fresh horse. that's all we need. >> the startled animal runs over paul's discarded buggy. >> let's keep the horse on the outside. keep him on the outside if you can. >> ring officials try to keep it away from people in the center. >> keep quiet. keep the horse on the rails if you can. keep him on the outside if you can. >> the horses in center ring, we could have major serious injuries. >> the horse avoids the center, but then loops back around. it knocks a man over and narrowly misses the disabled driver. >> what goes through someone's mind at that time? first of all, total panic. oh, my goodness. then a lot of prayer. you don't know what the outcome is going to be. >> the buggy tips, helping slow

the horse just enough to enable a few other animals to be removed from the ring. >> take the horses out. take them out. take them out. can we get the far gate open? don't open it now. don't open it now. hold on, no, no, wait. >> but this horse shows no signs of stopping. moments later, ring men ready lassos to harness it. when the buggy jolts off, the exhausted animal trips and goes down. if the horse is critically injured, it will have to be put down. fortunately, it's not hurt. >> horse was absolutely fine. he went on at the end of the year, was a national champion country horse under saddle. he was fine after that. just exhausted and terrified. >> miraculously, other than a few bruises and one broken thumb, no people are critically injured either. so what went wrong to initiate

all this chaos? it wasn't driver error, since paul is an expert horseman. and paul's horse has plenty of experience in competition, too. turns out, it was something small that chuck noticed in the ring only after it was too late. stinging bees. >> that particular day, the horses entered the ring on the far side, several of them were irritated by something. personally, i think it was some kind of bees in there, and paul came through there and his horse just panicked and took off at a full gait run. after this happened, my trainer recommended i stop driving that horse. and if i wanted to keep driving, i should get a different horse. i bought his brother. this is lucky because he brings me luck. >> lucky also brought luck to matt, the trainer who saved the disabled woman in the video.

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stakes are high for more than three dozen skydivers attempting a world record. but the risks climb even higher when two skydivers find themselves in a life-threatening

downward spiral. october 1994, 18,000 feet above davis, california. a group of skydivers is determined to make it into the record books. their goal, build a 46 parachute diamond or canopy, then separate and land safely. it will hold eight more skydivers than the world's best of 38. after three years of planning, this morning is their last test before the next day's big jump. skydiving cameraman brian scott taped the practice session. the skydivers will use the tape later to analyze the jump. >> jumping formation is multiple parachutes flying together in formation. a person at the top will grab the nylon of the parachute that comes in to dock on him. he'll put a foot in the line and he'll hold that parachute while someone else comes and joins the formation.

and you'll build up a diamond or a stack of parachutes. >> it's a risky and volatile jump, but 35-year veteran skydiver mike lewis embraces the challenge. >> canopy formation is very fragile formation. the idea of someone grabbing ahold of your parachute scares experienced jumpers even more than new jumpers because they get all tangled up in your parachute, it's gone. you can't use it to land. >> lewis is the point man today in charge of mapping out every detail. he knows even the smallest miscue could mean the difference between success and disaster. >> it's very much likecoria graphing a dance because everyone has an assigned place where they have to fly to in the formation. they haven assigned place they have to take ahold of the other canopy. you have to have your hand and feet in the right place. you have to plan out the entire jump and then the challenge is to go up and do it in the air. >> for today's world record

attempt, lewis assembles the best in the field. all seems to be going smoothly until something catches cameraman scott's eye. >> something just didn't look right. there was a left row six wing that had docked and he had just fallen off the formation. his canopy is kind of spun out. that kind of sent an unjilation, a wave through the formation. this went to the opposite side of the formation. >> sure enough, as the skydiver attempts to join the right side of the formation, the wave reaches him. still, he manages to hold tight as another team member approaches from below. the man beneath should help stabilize the right side. >> you want to see the man come in underneath the wing dock like that, just to add stability to the formation. otherwise, it's a free floating parachute. >> before the skydivers on the right can stabilize, the man on the left reapproached row six. as he joins, he pulls down on the formation, amplifying the

wave again. when the wave reaches the chutes on the right, they're pushed forward. >> as they come forward, the parachutes start collapsing, start like an accordion, folding up. that's when several people let go on the right side. the right row six wing was so far forward, when they let go of him, his parachute flew across the front of the formation and turned back into the formation and came across the front of the formation, his parachute did a 90-degree left turn and came right in the formation. >> the entire pyramid collapses, and two skydivers end up in a treacherous tangle. unlucky man who gets wrapped up is brian scott's friend, allen. >> esthhe's one of his best fri in the world. i got right on it and started spiraling the two of them. it kind of looked like a biplane. two parachutes like this together. >> chutes that are tangled can't function properly. so now, both skydivers spin out of control.

9,000 feet above the ground. and allen has another problem. the lines of the other man's chute are wrapped around his neck. >> what we call a wrap. your parachute is open, but someone else's parachute is wrapped around you. in this case, the person who has the parachute wrapped around you, they need to pull their release handle and go into freefall. it takes the tepnsion off. >> falling at nearly 50 miles per hour, the skydivers have less than two minutes before they hit the ground. the first guy manages to break free, but his parachute remains behind. its lines still wrapped around allen's neck. >> the parachute lines are wrapped around allen twice. so when the other guy cut away, the tension stayed on allen. the parachute was still partially open and the lines were wrapped around allen so the parachute was pulling the lines tight. like a chinese finger trap. just fixed to you. >> with time running out and his neck constricted, allen has only

one option, cut the other skydiver's chute line. but as he does that, it leads to yet another problem. >> once allen cut the first line, the other parachute went nuts. it started spinning. because it was no longer in a flight configuration. one side was cut loose, one more got cut loose and started spinning more and more. now it's wrapping allen's parachute's lines up into a coil. it was tying a rope. >> allen is spinning out of control, and time is running out. >> i didn't know if allen was going to make it. i had never seen anything that violent before. i knew we were getting pretty low, and we were right over the airport. i could see the numbers on the runway. i thought he was going to go in. really the way i felt as i was watching him through this ordeal. >> with the lines twisted so thick and tight, allen's problems go from bad to worse. his knife breaks. allen reaches for a second

knife, which he wouldn't have been carrying that day if it hadn't been for his friend brian scott. >> the day before, i went to the pro shop and bought him a metal hook knife. and i think allen had a knife that was already in his rig. it was kind of like on his harness right here. but it was plastic. and i bought him a better knife. just a present to my buddy the day before. >> with his knew knife, allen finally frees himself of both chutes. now, in freefall, he has fewer than ten seconds until impact. >> we were under 1,000 feet. then i saw a pilot chute come out and that was it. he had pulled out at about 700 feet. >> with little time to spare, allen coasts to a landing, completely unscathed. luckily, his reserve chute deployed. even though he was so close to the ground. >> we all gathered at the ground, and he was just laughing and carrying on. he was back up in the air that day. allen is just my hero.

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a factory worker clings to life. hoping rescuers can reach him before it's too late. january, 2003. the west pharmaceutical factory in north carolina, manufacturer of rubber stoppers for syringes, sky high. calls pour in to 911. >> 911, what is your emergency? >> there's been a big explosion. >> some callers report that a plane struck the building. their search and rescue firefighter witnesses the blast from miles away. >> i heard the exz plosion and then saw the smoke rising above

the trees. i thought it was a plane crashed into the building. i figured it would be a lot of casualties. i have never been in a fire, any incident of that size before. >> the county fire marshal is also called in that day. >> we're rule eastern north carolina, a small town. when this happens, it took every resource in our county, for the fire service, this was our world trade center. >> a little more than a year after the 9/11 attacks has small town kinson been the target of a similar strike? potential casualties could be high with 130 employees on site at the time of the incident. but officials quickly rule out the possibility that an airplane is to blame. >> in the first hour of being on the scene and contacting the tower and the airport, no evidence of any plane striking the building was seen. so we ruled out a plane going into the building fairly early. >> officer woody spencer of the police department is assigned to

document the scene on video. >> it was total chaos. trucks and people running all over the place. and flames and smoke billowing from the building. when i started videotaping, there was a piece of wood in the grass in front of me that was impaled in the ground. it was like, holy cow. the doors on the docks were out, so that the concussion from the explosion was immense. >> 20 minutes after the blast, officials believe dozens of employees may still be trapped inside. >> need the ladder truck to set up. >> firefighters search desperately in the thick, black smoke. then, a worker manages to climb out of the devastation. firefighters help the badly burned man down from the hot roof. with other workers still missing, rescuers have to jump right back in. >> we're still searching for people we knew weren't accounted

for. we could stay until the job gets done. >> the rumors were everywhere that there were all sorts of people inside, trapped and dead. >> one hour after the start of the fire, authorities know the prospects of finding survivors is grim. and that's when they see a sight they can hardly believe. >> the wind kind of shifted, and started pushing the smoke a different direction. and all of a sudden, he appeared out of the smoke. everybody was speechless. >> i had been a shooter for 20-something years and that right there was probably, i felt, as helpless as i had felt in my life because there was nothing i could do. all i could do was videotape him from a distance. >> he's perched just above the epicenter of the fire. and appears severely burned on his arms and legs. now officials have to figure out how to pull him from the inferno. >> he had already been up there for a while. we knew that time wasn't in his favor. >> with time running out,

rescuers must quickly device a safe way in and out. >> something of that magnitude, you're just not sure what's going to happen walking on the roof or inside the building with all the structure collapsed. one little thing could fall and create a domino effect. >> the man is there for 20 more minutes before firefighters reach him and pull him to safety. he is machinist jim edwards, and he survived. >> i feel wonderful. i thank god i'm saved now. he said, i'm with you, jim. relax. everything will be fine. i'll be right with you. that's what happened. >> edwards is burned over 60% of his body. trapped inside the blaze, he wondered if his time had come. >> that fire and everything was about ten foot away from me. with all that heat and everything, it was eating me alive. i just didn't go nowhere.

it was scary. and i was just wondering if i was ever going to see the next day or not. if this was the end. >> over the next three years, edwards undergoes a dozen surgeries. along the way, he contracts an infection that ultimately claims his eye sight. despite his hardship, edwards remains positive. >> the good lord felt like it was not my time to go. i feel like i still have something to offer, to give to people. i'm blessed to be here still today. i talk to people about how important it is to not take anything for granted because you could lose everything in a flash. >> in all, six people die in the fire. what went wrong to start this deadly blaze in the first place? turns out, it's something that went unnoticed. accumulating for years. dust, polyethylene dust, a nonstick coating applied to the raw rubber produced at the factory. >> not like a house does, like a

fine powdery kind of the texture of a talcum powder, and when it's suspended and hanging in the air, it's very volatile and very explosive and flammable. if it accumulated over time in an attic, a crawl space, in a drop ceiling, it takes something very minor to make that dust airborne, and once it finds an ignition source, it's going to blow. >> like a natural gas leak, any number of sources could have ignited the dust, a light switch, static, a tool spark, but authorities are never able to confirm the source in this case. after this incident, north carolina passes stricter fire regulations to allow inspectors access to confined areas where dust can accumulate. the aim is to safeguard the lives of works and first responders. with the pharmaceutical company now rebuilt nearby, jim edwards expected the new rules will help

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welcome back to "caught on camera." i'm contessa brewer. when you attend a fourth of july fireworks display, you expect to see fireworks, just not fireworks like this. on this night, spectators were left scared, scarred, and wanting to know what went wrong. in southeastern pennsylvania, a holiday celebration goes from festive to fearsome in the blink of an eye. >> oh, my gosh. what the -- >> july 4th, 2010. the town is celebrated more than america's independence. the 7,000 residents are also celebrated their hometown's big birthday. lifelong native and her family look forward to the evening's festivities. >> they were celebrating its 250th anniversary, which is a really, really big deal for the community.

they had vendor s set up, rides set up, things for the kids and the adults to do. >> innight would be topped off by a firework s display at a middle school field. a first in the town's history. her teenage son doesn't want to miss it. >> that day i was hanging out with my girlfriend all day. we met up with my mom before we went to the fireworks. >> the lawn is crowded with scores of spectators, but adiya and her kids find a spot in the grass up frublt. they sit just behind tape separating the crowd from the fireworks launch site, 220 feet away. hundreds more grab seats on the bleachers behind the fence to get a view from farther away. >> about 10:00, the fireworks started going off. it was beautiful. >> me and my girlfriend were laying in the grass, looking up. it was cool because we could watch them going overhead. >> from the bleachers, spectators record the show with their video cameras and phones.

about 20 minutes into the show, the finale begins. >> but no one is prepared for what happens next. >> oh, my gosh. >> fireworks started going off at ground level. they started shooting sideways. they were coming out toward the crowd and the people. >> they started going off quickly and all different directions. a few flew toward us. >> the crowd begins to panic. >> it happened so quickly, there was really not time to react or realize what was going on around us. you could hear screams and people yelling and crying, and everything in total chaos. >> sitting in the open grass, adiya, her kids, and scores of others are more exposed than those in the bleachers. so the errant fireballs reach them first. along with the container used to launch the fireworks called a mortar box, filled with unlit

shells. >> the box was rolling end over end towards us. it landed two feet from my son's leg. for a split second, i thought, we're okay. >> but then, a shock. tyler takes a direct hit from a 3,000 degree shell launched out of the mortar box lying right next to him. >> i wasn't sure quite what happened. it just felt like i got kicked really hard in the back of the leg with and my ears were ringing. i heard my girlfriend running away screaming. i wanted to make sure she was all right. it was only after paramedics checked her out that i was like, hey, something is wrong with my leg. >> he exposed his leg to the full force of the blast. >> i have my shorts right here. and then down at the bottom, you can see they're all sleddhredde. >> tyler's injuries are most

severe on the back of his left leg. he sustains third degree burns and shruhapinapnel caused a gap hole in his calf. >> he had a hole in his leg that a golf ball could have fit into easily, along with other burns down his calf. bad cuts on his ankle and his foot, and up the back of his leg. >> so why does a summer evening of family celebrating turn to horror? what went wrong? a state police investigation revealed that a shell exploded inside a launch tube, setting off a chain reaction, blasting amotorer box straight toward tyler and his family. several regulators fine the fireworks company $3700. the company did not return our calls for comment. >> oh, my gosh. >> with such powerful shells

fired by the company, the federal report insists they should have used sturdier steel mortar boxes instead of the weaker wooden ones. ten others get hurt that night, but tyler's injuries are the worst. he endures several surgeries and months of therapy to heal his leg. but emotional scars remain. >> i haven't been to any fireworks show since. it kind of makes me nervous. don't want to get near them. coming up -- >> a single bird causes a lot of chaos. >> when that bird went in the engine, i knew i had to eject and i was not looking forward to doing it. and later, a building dips but doesn't tip. >> here it goes. and then it just stops.

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an ordinary training flight becomes a fight for life. >> oh. >> canadian air force captain john hunt has flown fighters for more than two decades, with thousands of hours logged in a variety of jets, he's among canada's best. >> i have been transferred to the flight instructors school where i actually was an instructor for instructors. >> at the canadian nato flight training center in saskatchewan, instructors fly with students in the hawk 155. this jet is a one-engine, two-seat aircraft. on training missions, the student pilot flies in the front seat and instructor pilots like hut fly in the back seat. >> when we sign the airplane out, the instructor pilot is the pileant in command and he's responsible for the airplane, for the mission. we have a tape to see how the

student pilot is flying so we have that for debrief later. >> among the maneuvers pilots practice is the touch and go. that's when a pilot touches wheels down briefly then returns to the air in one fell swoop without stopping. for fighter pilots, the maneuver is routine. one that can save their lives if a landing must be aborted for any reason. in may, 2004, captain hutt supervises a touch and go performed by a british pilot during training. >> a fully winged pilot, just getting a familiarization for the jet before he went into training for him. >> once the pilot completes the touch and go, hutt takes over. >> she's been flying for an hour and a half. i have to have a minute on the stick, so that's when i took the wheels up, after the touch and go. >> but then, both pilots are

rocked by what happens next. a single bird gets sucked into the jet's engine. >> when you have a landing gear up and no runway in front of you, the option of putting the aircraft back down on the ground when you lost all struts is gone. >> with no struts from his only engine, hutt has only one option. >> when that bird went in the engine, i knew i had to eject, and i was just not looking forward to doing it. the ejection system is designed to get your pink body away from the crash site. you're not expected to get out of the situation unscathed. it's a very violent thing. i know pretty well every situation where two people have ejected out of the same plane, at least one of them is hurt, if not fatally. >> hutt takes advantage of the speed he has to tilt nose up and gain altitude. that could increase their chances for survival.

with more altitude, their parachutes will have more time to deploy. hutt has one other thing going for him. >> at the end of the mission, the fuel state was low, so the aircraft was light. i had that advantage. >> with altitude gains, hutt tries restarting the engine. >> restart. >> no luck. and now they have another problem. they've lost too much speed. >> because i was too aggressive with that initial climb, my air speed bled quickly and i was basically trying to keep the airplane flying. if the airplanes fly too slow, they stall. >> a stalled plane had no lift and falls out of control. to prevent that, hutt drops his right wing, trading altitude for air speed. the jet's computer voice warns their gear is not down for landing. >> you are not done. >> with the ground approaching rapidly, hutt must level the aircraft before ejection.

>> it's important to be wing level. it really helps your chance of survival. you put any bank on the airplane, it lessens, especially in a low level environment. we're making sure we were wings level before we ejected. >> the pilots try to restart one last time. >> try to get a relight going. >> okay. >> with time running out, hutt prepares to eject. his last task is to aim the jet where it will do the least harm when it crashes. >> i took a quick look around to see where the airplane was going. straight ahead looked good. put the throttle back to idle, and then we were ready and the ground was starting to come up fast so it was time to go. >> i'm ready. >> eject to the north. >> eject.

eject. >> an explosive situation. you're literally sitting on a rocket. >> the jet is completely destroyed. but both pilots survive the violent ejection process. >> in our case with this airplane, it has a detonating cord in the canopy that literally explods the canopy around your head so the feet can go through faster. it's a huge explosion. i remember one of the biggest memory of the whole event was the big white flash right in my face. it felt like i exploded myself. then the seat goes up, up to 20 g acceleration as it takes you up the rail. the ejection force itself, i really remember eed a very stro pain in the small of my back. when the chute opened up again, that was just reconfirmed the pain in my back. i hit the ground pretty hard and i did further damage to myself. i broke my femur, the femur shattered on contact. >> having better luck, the british pilot escaped with only

minor injuries, and captain hutt cheated death by only the slimmest margin. >> i was probably doing about 33 feet per second when i hit the ground, and all the data out there says that anything more than about 35 feet per second is probably a fatal rate. >> so what went wrong? investigators find the wing of the small bird in the wreckage. it's a franklin gold, common to the air field, but generally too small to do this much damage. so it makes sense when investigators find that it isn't the only thing the engine has ingested. >> as the bird came down in my aircraft, it hit the probe before it ended up going in the engine. >> and the metal probe, a sensor that indicates the plane's angle on the horizon, broke off and chewed off the inside of the engine, causing the failure. it all proves that sometimes the smallest creatures can cause the

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at just over 200 feet, the zip tower feed mill in south dakota stood as the tallest building for 50 years. but in 2005, it becomes the tallest leaning building. this sioux falls native has something in common with the leaning tower. >> it was built in 1935, the year i was born. it was the largest feed manufacturing plant in the united states. there was still a lot of pride in it.

>> over the years, hundreds of sioux falls residents worked there. but by 2000, the work moved on and that's when the building closed for g. that's when jeff saw an opportunity for his community. >> i'm a long time sioux falls resident. i'm dedicated to my community. i needed more space for my growing business and i started looking for available properties. >> the zip tower mill land on the east of the sioux river fits the bill. in 2005, jeff purchases the property, determined to demolish the 11-story landmark. >> we were looking at bids for exploding it and for bids for just taking it down the old-fashion way with the ball and chain. >> but the zip is one story taller than the highest wrecking crane in the state. so it must be taken down with explosives.

jeff seizes the opportunity to raise funds for a cause dear to his heart. >> my daughter was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis so i said i'm going to turn this into a fund-raiser. >> a rookie reporter at the time jumps at the time to cover the event. >> we knew it was for a great cause. the tallest building in dakota is coming down and you want to be here for that. >> so we went out and sold tickets for the person who pushes the button. >> they call the event boom and print thousands of raffle tickets to sell. >> in a little less than six weeks' time, we sold 50,000 tickets. a dollar apiece. it just became bigger than life. >> they were expecting thousands and thousands of people. how exactly are they going to do this, to blow up the biggest building in south dakota? is anybody going to get hurt?

>> to protect the public, authorities set up a wide perimeter. because there is so much land around the building, the plan is to tip the zip over like a tree rather than implode it straight down. that way, fewer explosives are required, according to demolition site manager, eric schuller. >> it was a very solid structure. to install enough explosives to crumble that building upon itself would have been a pretty big feat. to tip it over, it was a lot easier method. the explosive experts removed concrete in between the columns and then installed explosives in those columns. the plan was then to remove that support structure similar to falling a tree, creating a wedge for a tree to fall down to the east. >> on december 6th, 2005, with tens of thousands watching in person and on tv, the zip's time has come. >> 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 -- >> whoa. >> the zip dips but it doesn't

tip. >> instead of going over like i knew it was supposed to, it fell into this hole. a story and a half was blown out of it and there was really only one metal pipe that broke off. otherwise, the entire structure stood. had the contractor said, what's going on? we said, we don't know. we're not sure why it didn't go down. it may still fall. so we've got to be real careful. >> so why did the building tip but not topple? when the blast knocks out the lower floor, the remaining floors rush down and crush a foundation softened by years of standing water. once in the hole, the zip just sticks. >> this has been great because it says, i'm not going down without a fight. >> there was a 15-foot deep basement under the structure that was actually blasted into

quartzite. quartzite is like granite, very solid. it came down and sat in that footprint. >> people were still just kind of dumbfounded by the whole situation. i don't really think they knew what to do or how to react as opposed to just laugh at it. well, we'll see what they do now. can they blow it up again? can they bring any more dynamite? can they bring in more explosives in how long is it going to stay like this? will it be the leaning tower of sioux falls? no one knew. >> things did not go quite according to plan. >> the explosion shortened approximately 40 feet in mere seconds. so the building went from 205 feet to roughly 160 feet tall, so the wrecking ball could reach the rest of the building and bring the top of it down. >> it takes three weeks to finish the job. during that time, the leaning tower of zip makes national news.

and thousands more make donations to the ms foundation, totaling more than $150,000. >> i would say another 20%, 30% came in after the fact because of the way this thing all turned out. >> if it had just fallen over, okay, it's over. it's what we expected. it was the blooper of it all. >> the initial demolition may have been a bust but that blooper led to something quite progressive. the zip's soft concrete is crushed, recycled, and laid into the foundation of the new building. >> it's not the tallest building in south dakota anymore, but it's still there. it's still part of south dakota. >> the zip may be down, but it's legend has only grown. and that's physical proof that the best laid schemes of men and mice often go askew. we will give credit to poet robert burns, who wrote that in 1785 in scotland. so it's probably safe to assume

that what went wrong is a concept that is both universal and timeless. i'm contessa brewer. that's all for this edition of "caught on camera." a fire-breathing performance stuns the crowd. >> everybody just kind of stopped breathing for a minute. a snowmobiler comes crashing off a cliff. >> it was like losing my brother right in front of my eyes. and a race car driver is engulfed in flames. >> my first thought was we got to get him out. >> mix a little bit of thrill -- [ screams ] -- with a dash of danger and some very bad decisions -- >> we're leaving and she's driving. i'm drunk. >> -- you may find yourself in a situation you'd never want to be in.