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a truck torpedos through a storefront. >> the poor little girl who maybe weighs 100 pounds took the whole brunt of that dodge ram pickup. >> a monster machine wreaks havoc on a small town. >> oh, nosh. don't go for the library. adairing air show stunt goes from fun to frightening. >> he is going to crash. >> a high speed chase spins out of control.
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>> gets these upwards up to 90 miles an hour from this truck and trailer and lawn mower. >> in this hour high impact. >> it was just shocking to say the least. >> we call it the can opener. and crushing life or death moments. ♪ >> this is caught on camera, crash. >> hello. i'm contessa brewer. welcome to "caught on camera." a crash can happen just about anywhere. sometimes the impact is no more than a minor inconvenience. sometimes it is a life-changing or life-ending event. while crashes are often often accidents, in our first video you'll see a one-man wrecking effort that is anything but
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accidental. >> june 4th, 2004. an irate man in a bulldozer wreaks havoc on the small town of randy, colorado. >> what you would do is pull forward until the wall would collapse on top of him, and then he would pull backwards. he was just going from one end of the believe to the other doing that. causing the building to collapse on itself. >> glen trainer is the former undersheriff of grand county, colorado. when the call first comes in that a bulldozer is on the loose, he isn't overly concerned. that changes after a report of shots being fired. it turns out this is no ordinary bulldozer. >> when i arrived on scene and walked around the corner and saw this big tank there that was fully encased in armor, i knew
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that we had a problem that was much bigger than our team could handle on our own. the tank is outfitted with high caliber rifles and is rolling over everything in its path. a few residents grabbed cameras to record the destruction as it happens. the sheriff's department is ill-equipped to handle such an attack, so he calls for backup. >> we made the notification to ask for a larger tactical team to respond from the denver metropolitan area. >> there are shots fired. >> our primary purpose at that
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point was to try and just evacuate the town so that nobody got hurt. we knew that our arma meant was very ineffective against it. >> while the residents flee, trainer tries to determine who is unleashing this wave of destruction. >> we were notified that the individual who was driving this bulldozer was most likely marvin. >> marvin of as commoner around town. he was well known. people knew him. many people considered him a friend. >> i met marvin back in the 1990s. he ran a mufflor shop. i knew him just as a businessman. >> the motive becomes clear. he has been harboring deep-seeded grudges against prominent town members.
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>> the avenues about which the town went about to approve. >> the plant is the main source of his anger, but he is also unhappy with the town councilmembers for approving the plant's construction. his next target? the granby town hall. >> he began systematically from working in a clockwise fashion going around that building and basically taking it down zoosh and the building houses more than civil servants. >> oh, no. don't go for the library. >> we had evacuated approximately 12 elementary schoolchildren from the library which was in the town hall. >> but marvin isn't done yet. board members work in other places all around town. >> after the bulldozer left the town hall, it then went to the local bank that was on the corner. one of the employees of this bank had been also a member of
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the granby county board. he systematically went from one end of that town to the other to try and destroy literally their entire livelihoods. >> the rampage is not the act of a man who suddenly snaps. the planning and execution is painstaking. more than a year in the making. >> he also placed three different firearms in the walls of this thing using gun force.
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>> yet, even his close friends -- he implemented destruction or that he was planning to use it. >> he is careful in his construction. there are no windows leaving little hands for law enforcement to get a shot into the rolling fortress. he has to come up with another way to see. >> he placed several cameras at different locations outside. just pin hole cameras. he was then able to actually drive the thing using a closed-circuit tv video system. he demolished the town and help still a long way from arriving, trainer devises a plan to try to stop the destruction. >> knowing that we could not stop this vehicle or this tank from going where it wanted to go, i then remembered a video i had seen of a tank in san diego.
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it's a risky move, and apparently one that marvin had planned for. >> mr. hemyer had taken axle grease and greased the entire side of the tank so that, you know, if you tried to get on top, you would just slip off. i was able to stick my fingers in between a couple pieces of metal that had an exposed space and was able to eventually get on top. under sheriff takenor is out of time and ammo. he is forced to abort the plan. the destruction continues. then a lucky break. >> it started overheating and
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became stuck on the foundation of the building. one on dirt and one through an open crawl space. sfloot we were unaware if he smith committed suicide or what the situation was. within just a few minutes of all this happening, the bulldozer shutting off, tactical teams from the denver metro area begin arriving. >> unsure whether or not this is a ploy, sheriff trainer keeps the teams on high alert, while they attempt to find a way into the dozer. finally they were able to use the cutting torch and cup into the top of the tank or bulldozer to where that air conditioned
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unit was and determine that that mr. hemyer had died from a self-inflicked gunshot wound. >> sheriff's deputies later find his writings, which lay out his grievances with the town and his reasons for the rampage. no residents are injured, but marvin hemyer destroys 14 buildings and causes nearly $8 million in damage. >> it's apparent in talking to the citizens of granby and grand county a lot of systems worked well which could have been much worse. >> we have all felt very blessed that there was no loss of life. no civilians were injured or killed. >> in the aftermath the small town pulls together and starts to rebuild. >> the town wanted to do it right, and so they did not rush into rebuilding the town hall. however, i think the town hall was seen as a symbol of the reconstruction or the rebirth of the town, if you will, that once
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the town hall was completed i think it allowed the towns people to feel that we're actually back to normal. >> mad man in granby. >> when caught on camera crashed returns. and haven't for 35 years. with the hightest standard of animal care in the world, our whales are healthy. they're thriving. i wouldn't work here if they weren't. and government research shows they live just as long as whales in the wild. caring for these whales, we have a great responsibility to get that right. and we take it very seriously. because we love them. and we know you love them too.
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gather at the south padre airport for the high-flying event. >> it was a fair type atmosphere, and there's music, and there are people talking, and there's just all sorts of sounds and activity going on. >> the day's featured attraction is the pirated skies act performed by the husband and wife team of kyle and amanda franklin. >> they are two of the finest air show performers in the country. >> as the franklins begin their routine, crowds are amazed by kyle's skillful piloting and amanda's daring wing walking. >> there aren't that many wing walkers in the air show business. it's a really thrilling thing to see. >> the routine is going exactly as they're rehearsing. amanda's jaw-dropping stunts and kyle's aerial acrobatics wow the crowd.
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>> it's a unique biplane. it's big and loud. he makes it do things airplanes shouldn't be able to do. he has a sophisticated smoke system that pumps out smoke that he is doing all of his aerobatic maneuvers, and it's quite entertaining. amanda basically crawls all over the airplane while kyle is doing all sorts of aerobatic maneuvers with that big old biplane of his. >> near the end of his routine something goes horribly wrong. >> there's one final move that they make, and i guess we were all just waiting for them to come back up. >> he is going to crash. >> it disappeared behind a brush line. >> i didn't know what was happening, and we actually thought it was part of the show at first. people were anticipating for the plane to come back up. >> the plane never rises. people in the crowd realize they just witnessed a terrible
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accident. >> our crash fire rescue trucks were going before they ever got on the ground so they were there almost immediately. >> both amanda and kyle survived the crash, but they're not out of danger. >> we're inside. >> a couple of seconds later smoke started coming out. >> kyle got out almost immediately and was trying to help amanda out with a firing suit. >> but she still is strapped to the plane and kyle can't free her. >> i heard amanda. she was screaming. i heard the scream, and ran to the plane.
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>> rescuers have little time. >> they've taken them out. >> they were able to get them out and take them to a local hospital. >> keel and amanda both sustained burns as a result. kyle sustained burns on his arms, and as of today, he is still under going physical therapy. >> but amanda's injuries are far more severe. one week after the crash an emotional kyle franklin describes the extent of his wife's injuries. >> she's got burns over 70% of her body. she has inhalation injury. she's got a broken neck. broken back. her face is smashed.
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she's got multiple fractures on her face. she's got very little skin left for them do do very much grafting. >> due to her burns, she suffers numerous infections, and her kidneys all but shut down. 11 weeks after the crash, kyle is forced to make a difficult decision. he takes his wife amanda off life support. she passes away two months after her 25th birthday. in its final report, the national transportation safety board finds the probable cause of the accident to be loss of engine power for undetermined reasons. once the plane is in trouble, he and amanda had precious little time to react. >> by the time that the engine developed a problem until the time that they were on the ground was a matter of five or six seconds. she was standing on the top wing. when they crashed into the
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brush, she was inside the front cockpit. he levelled out so that amanda wra could get back inside the cockpit. he had to get amanda back in the airplane before he actually could adjust his direction. otherwise, she might have fallen off the plane. >> and then as he tried to make his way back into the open area, he didn't have enough altitude, and so he went down in the brush just across that runway. >> after the wreckage is cleared, the crash site provides clues as to what split second decisions kyle made in an attempt to save his and amanda's lives. >> it appears to me that he was trying to turn back towards the runway because there was a tree up there that has some branches missing at the top. it was coming from that direction, and it implies he was going back to the runway, and he didn't have enough altitude to make it. >> despite not making it to the
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runway, kyle still manages to get the plane in a good position for the rescue. he did a masterful job of at least getting it into a position where the rescue crews could get to hem. it truly is amazing. >> coming up -- ♪ a carjacking leads to a dangerous high speed chase. later, a vintage war plane --
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40% of the lights were out, but they're not out for long.they're coming back. an unusual and dangerous high speed chase is the culmination of a day-long crime spree in north carolina. >> there's a utility truck of some kind. >> frightening ending is all caught by the eye in the sky of local nbc station wcnc 36. >> oh. >> it speeds upwards of 90 miles
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an hour with this truck and trailer. >> april 9th, 2008. a landscaping crew in huntersville, north carolina, is in a municipal pickup truck when suddenly a trio of armed criminals steals it. >> the suspect and his two friends approached him with a handgun and demanded the town vehicle. >> one of the maintenance workers flags down a police car and a chase ensues. >> you have citizens out on the road and then when you have people that drive crazy trying to get away from the police, it just creates a dangerous situation. >> they're putting innocent people in a lot of danger by the way they're driving. especially the fact that they've got a trailer with a very heavy piece of equipment on the back. >> the heavy trailer makes it difficult to maneuver through traffic, but somehow no one gets hit. >> they're splitting traffic and just fortunately all the other drivers seem to be aware and
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pulling over to the side. >> the police chase the suspects for more than ten miles into the city of charlotte. here the driver is unable to maintain control of the truck and trailer. creating an even more frightening situation. >> when they fish tail, this is not a good idea to do this on a bridge. >> we are just extremely luck where i that that didn't go overboard. >> it turns out this isn't the first crime the suspects commit that day. >> earlier they're seen cruising in a stolen four runner looking for vacant houses to rob in cornelius, north carolina. >> the mo that we have seen is a stolen vehicle is used to go to other areas, neighborhoods, and try to check for people that aren't at home for easy targets. >> after circulating several neighborhoods for approximately 30 minutes or so, i went into one of our neighborhoods where we had an increase in home break-ins.
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>> the suspects are spotted and police work quickly to try to catch them. >> officers from huntersville helped out with officers in cornelius to secure the entrances to that neighborhood. >> the officers were in position ready for them, and the four runner went over some spike strips. >> we did flatten the front left tire of that car. >> even with a flat tire, the trio manages to escape the roadblock. >> one of our officers was behind them, lost sight of them due to heavy traffic at this time. >> once they lose the police, the suspects need new wheels. that's when they happen upon the maintenance truck. not exactly the ideal getaway car. >> we realize they got in the other vehicle i believe when a town employee flagged the officer down and told the officer that they had just been carjacked at gunpoint. >> clearly when an event like this takes place, we have to keep in mind that these are potentially very dangerous individuals. at the end of this chase, it had a dramatic end and potentially a
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deadly wreck over a busy interstate. >> even after the truck crashes, the suspects don't give up hope of escape. >> they all jumped and ran from the vehicle and ran from the police officers who were running after them. >> conveniently for us, they never left their leader. they followed him everywhere he went, which made it very convenient for the officers in pursuit. april 9th, 2008, turned out to be a very bad day for these three individuals. >> with the suspects in custody, authorities put the day's dramatic events in perspective. >> no injuries to the suspects. no injuries to officers. no injuries to any citizen that may have been around that incident. >> okay. look, he is fish tailing. he is going to wreck. >> we were very, very fortunate that nobody got hurt. that mower didn't fly off the bridge on to that busy interstate. >> the three men are charged with numerous crimes, including
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robbery with a dangerous weapon. >> i did testify against the three individuals, and ultimately they were all sentenced to prison time. >> mr. staples who was the leader of this group got 12 years, six months and the other two individuals, mr. gains and mr. hines received eight years, six months. >> these high-speed hazards should serve as a warning to anyone on the road. >> when a car passes you at a high rate of speed driving eratically, it's obviously some issue that you need to be aware of. we tell people to pull over to the shoulder of the road, turn your radio down so you can hear what's going on. >> look at, he is fish tailing. here it goes. he is going to wreck. >> coming up, crash after crash after crash. all at the same location. and all caught on camera.
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camera because generally they come without warning. what if you knew where one was going to take place? this is one location that seems to epit miz the expression an accident waiting to happen. hard to predict where an accident will occur. they are accidents after all. there is one place where accidents are almost as regular as months on a calendar. >> 31 crashes in, what, 36 months. this railroad bridge has a clearance of only 11 feet, eight inches, which is clearly mark here and here. >> some of the trucks when they pull up they look like sardine cans have been opened. we call it the can opener. >> he moved from durham from
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germany. he has been fascinated by the city's history, and the bridge at the center of so many accidents. >> the buildings here were built about early 20th century. the tobacco warehouses around 1904. that's probably around the time the bridge was built. i don't expect that the clearance was a big issue then. >> as trucks grow taller, the bridge doesn't. >> i found pictures of crashes in the 1940s and 1950s. >> it sets out to see how many occurred. >> we were wondering if we could record the crashes to get more accurate record of the frequency of these crashes. >> i have a camera set up here in the store and in my office across the street. >> from april 2008 to april 2011 henry records crash after crash
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after crash. 31 in three years. he posted the crash videos on-line. >> i'm hoping that putting out these videos helps at least to raise awareness, especially for people who rent trucks because that's really the vast swrort i would say of the truck drivers who run their trucks into the bridge. >> over the years that bridge has taken a beating. its operator, the norfolk southern railroad, has even taken precautions to defend the bridge from the constant collisions. >> the railroad company has set up the crash beam to prevent damage to the structure because it's a very busy train track. they've had to previously shut down the train tracks for days on end to repair the tressle, which is very expensive. >> the city has also made an effort to prevent these crashes
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by posting clearance signs and installing a warning system. >> the city has set up a system to detect over height trucks, which triggers the flashing lights on top of the crash beam to alert the driver hopefully that the vehicle is too tall to pass the bridge safely. >> but the crashes continue to happen. with all the warnings and safety precautions, why are there still so many crashes at this particular bridge? do some drivers not know the height of their trucks? or sdoo they simply not pay attention to all of the warnings? hen has a theory. >> the problem in my opinion is the speed. the speed limit is 25 miles an hour. i have noticed that a lot of the trucks that hit the crash beam are going way too fst, and if you are driving a rental truck, and you are really focused on
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your sort of immediate environment, if you are not experienced, you might very easily miss obvious signs and all of a sudden boom, you hit the briblg. >> while it oonl takes a matter of seconds for a truck to get stuck getting unstuck is a completelyifferent story. >> the process of getting the truck out, some hit the crash beam, back out, and drive off. others get stuck and can't get the truck out without help. >> no matter how destructive the crash is to the trucks and the bridge, all of the drivers he catches on camera have been able to walk away. >> i don't know if anyone got seriously injured from a crash. they're shaken up, bruised egos for sure. no serious physical harm.
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>> open for business as usual. store manager is out on a deliver where i when she receives an urgent call. a car come into the cleaners and hit brittany. >> i can remember seeing the big old truck and just glass coming at me. >> i didn't know brittany's condition. i got here as quick as i could. >> when shawna arrives, she sees the parking lot is a disaster zone. they still had her behind the counter. she didn't get out from behind the counter for probably 15 or 20 minutes. >> it was huge, and it was twisted. >> as awful as it is to get the call for shawna ray, it's nothing compared to the call brittany's mother sean beach has
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to endure. >> i was at home. they called me and told me there had been an accident. >> didn't know what i was doing at the time. i was scared. all i knew was she was pinned. they said she was alive. >> somehow brittany escapes death despite the truck coming right at her. >> the crash leaves its mark. >> can you see the difference in the knees. you can see the bruises. i have an incision here that i have. shauna sees how the accident happens and why brittany is able to survive. >> what they figured is the cinder block in the front slowed the truck down. he didn't hit it with the full force. we had a computer stand, and
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that's where brittany landed. that was probably better for her because those doors we had up front, they came flying up, and if she hadn't have fallen down, they would have hit her in the head. brittany looks up and had he sees there's nothing she can do. you don't see brittany anymore. how did that poor little girl who maybe weighs 100 pounds took the whole brunt of that dodge ram pickup? >> i can't express how blessed i truly am to make it out of there alive. >> but how could this happen? it turns out an elderly customer, roger mays, loses control of his pickup truck. >> well, mr. mays was coming to drop his clothes off. one of our customers had been at the counter, and he was waiting. >> after the other customer pulls out, mays attempts to pull into the parking spot. according to the police report, he went to apply the brakes, but accidentally hit the
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accelerator. >> he was in the cleaner so fast that it was scary. >> mays isn't hurt, but he is cited for failure to exercise due care. the incident rattles him. >> once they got him out of the truck, which they had to pull the truck back and once they got hem out of the truck, he was walking around and his daughter came to, you know, make sure that he was okay. and mr. mays stayed until they loaded brittany on to thing ambulance. he was shook up. i mean, he is an elderly gentleman, and he was shook up. >> while the front of the dry cleaners is destroyed, shauna manages to keep the cleaners open for business. >> none of our machines were hurt. it took out all of our computer equipment and the counter and all of that. >> you have to come to the back door, and i'm sorry for that. we'll take care of you however we can. >> we're able to work. can't keep them down.
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>> an suv slams into a row of store fronts in new york city's spanish harlem, and right into an unsuspecting street vendor. >> they hit right in the middle. >> the crash rattles windows and shakes up the people nearby. it's all caught by a store's security camera. >> it was one of those things where it happened so fast. you don't know what's going on. >> it was a little scare where i. >> february 18th, 2008. c.j. morales is working in the stockroom of a shoe store when he hears a beg bang. >> they sounded like a big thunderbolt of some. it sounded like big crushing noise. i walked outside, and i saw that it was right there.
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door. they gave me a hand, and i was bleeding in my leg. he was on the ground. he was trying to lean on things. he came asking for help. he started leaning on this one. this part of the door. i don't feel it's not a good sign. >> it was like probably 15 or 20 minutes before the ambulance showed up. >> due to the severity of his injuries, first responders rushed johnny to the hospital. >> his leg was, like, really messed up, and he was going through a whole lot with surgery and, like, physical therapy. >> johnny is in the hospital for five days. he requires surgery. >> it takes months for him to return to work. life and business go on for the vendors on the block. everyone is a little more aware of how quickly things can change.
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>> i'm always cautious of my surroundings, but, like, standing where johnny is at now, i'm a little more observant. >> the way i see it people come with they are cars, and they come in too fast, and they make noise. i get nervous. >> coming up, a small plane misses the runway and crashes into the bay. and the runway mishap at jfk airport leaves passengers shaken when "caught on camera, crashed" returns. i don't want to think about the alternative. i don't even know how to answer that. i mean, no one knows how long their money is going to last. i try not to worry, but you worry. what happens when your paychecks stop? because everyone has retirement questions. ameriprise created the exclusive confident retirement approach. to get the real answers you need. start building your confident retirement today.
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>> oh, my goodness. >> it was just unbelievable to me. >> march 25th, 2011. dave darby is spending the afternoon at albert airfield. a small airport just outside tampa, florida. >> my buddy kirk who has been building this air control tower back here, he has been doing it for the past year and a half. he wanted me to come see it. we decided conveniently come to check it out on the grand prix was coming on. >> on the grand prix, they open wheel indycar race, and portions of the airport, including our east-west runway become part of the actual racecourse. >> the tower provides a perfect view to watch the race, so dave decides to bring his camera along. >> we are on top of the tower on the roof, and i was just shooting this footage of, like, everything that was around. then i noticed that there was a bunch of these old war planes that were taxiing over here on
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the runway, and they were about to take off. >> sometimes we'll do air shows in between races or during the main race in this case. this was like the event that kind of kicked the race off. >> it didn't seem out of the ordinary to me. >> but the plane is in trouble. its engine stalls, and the pilot struggles to make the runway. at first it looks to dash where i like the plane is going to make it. >> as it was coming in, it seems like aufltd it just droptd and just hit the water and crashed and flipped forward. >> all kinds of boats started speeding into the plane. probably about ten of them. i think some of the boats that responded to the site they already had a boat in the water
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for the race. >> the pilot and the passenger are under water. >> did they get under the plane. >> both managed to swim out of the cockpit and on to a pair of wave runners that arrive on the scene. >> the faa is probably going to want this footage. >> once i saw the pilot got out, it was sort of like a relief. >> in this case because we had the race going on, crews were already on the property. they were looking -- >> looking at the tape, it seems like the plane is going to land on the runway. >> the seated wall separates the runway from the bay.
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slamming into it would likely be more disastrous than forcing the plane into the water. after the crash the height of the sea wall makes it difficult for the salvage crew to recover the sunken plane. for david darby there is one lasting side effect. >> i don't know if i'll be flying any little planes any i'm soon. >> i just caught it on film, br ro. >> you got that. >> oh, my goodness. >> so far we've seen planes crash into water and on land. you would think once a plane makes it to the runway, it would be safe.
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>> a large transcontinental airplane clips the tail of the smaller regional jet spinning it with jarring force. april 11, 2011. a small delta comair arriving from boston lands at j.f.k. and passengers on board get a frightening reminder of one of the reasons why they should not take their seat belts off before they reach the gate. zimplt a massive airbus a380 taxiing to the runway, crashes into it, turning it about 45 degrees. >> once ground control receives word of the accident, they immediately dispatch emergency personnel. after moving both planes away from the crash site, crews work to clean up any debris on the runway rsh the cause is still being investigated, but the
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ntsb's preliminary report indicates the regional jet had to wait for another plane to depart before being able to taxi to its gate. the jet's tail was hanging over the taxiway. terribly, the air france airbus a 380 is one of the largest commercial airliners in service today. with a total wing span of 261 feet. while passengers on the 300 ton airbus report feeling only a slight rumble -- >> air france thinks he may have hit somebody. >> the 56 people on the smaller feel a violent jolt. luckily, no one is injured. >> i think the take-away from this show is keep your seat belt on. i'm contessa brewer. that's all for this edition of "caught on camera. "
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