and bikinis. as the rides are in motion and music is under way, fans are finding their places throughout the stadium. chris cox is a music producer and deejay sitting in the vip section. they stopped letting people downstairs because they wanted to start filling in the bleachers. and they all wanted to get down into the field, which was packed with people. and there are only a few access points where people could get through. and then so many people just started pushing, and you know, it just kept getting more dense and tighter and everybody s getting more squished. so, people just started climbing over the fences. almost imperceptibly, an orderly situation takes a dangerous shift. a local news chopper captures it all from the air. people in the crowd that i was standing with was saying bum rush the gates. that s when i picked up my
boat. interviewed by a reporter on the beach, a young collin ward is still stunned by the experience. i ve seen pretty bad conditions, but six to seven meters and breaking ten feet on top, white water everywhere. there s no chance of turning it. couldn t do a thing with it. they find the hull floating about four miles off shore. the channel 7 news chopper records the coast guard s attempts to right the damaged vessel. after several failed tries, they give up and tow the hull to shore. it was just a nightmare. i don t care to think what could have happened. but the potential for disaster was very, very great. possibly not everybody would have survived. simply put, those guys did a great job on the day. there are a lot of people who could have died on that day. but for the skill and expertise of one of our pilots here.
them. they don t get it right, have to come for everybody. i took a swing at the skid and i missed and fell off. the adrenaline was pumping. more action than i think a james bond movie. may, 1980. brisbane, australia. a call comes in about a yacht in distress. we got word there was a boat in trouble off the island. greg and the camera man took off in the chopper 7 news chopper to perform what they assume would be a routine water rescue in morton bay. they don t have exact coordinates for the boat s location. they spot a different vessel, the water police, who are responding to the may day call. greg hopes the water police know where the troubled boat is, but he can t confirm this by radio. they were on a different
caught on camera s ultimate fan favorite. a news chopper makes headlines when it falls from the sky. may 2004. shots are fired in flat bush, brooklyn. a local helicopter is there to cover the story when the video feed suddenly cuts out. the chopper has lost hydraulic power. it starts sputtering out of control and spinning in circles. another helicopters covering the same story rolls on the drama. inside the nbc chopper are a reporter, the pilot, and copilot. what must have been going on in the people s heads as they were kind of spinning down to what i assume they assumed was their demise? that s really horrifying. the helicopter slams into a rooftop chimney, snaps apart, and lands in pieces on a roof next door.
to recover their damaged $25,000 boat. interviewed by a reporter on the beach, a young collin ward is still stunned by the experience. i ve seen pretty bad conditions, but six to seven meters and breaking ten feet on top, whitewater everywhere. there s no chance of turning it. couldn t do a thing with it. they find the hull floating about four miles offshore. the channel 7 news chopper records the coast guard s attempts to right the damaged vessel. after several failed tries, they give up and tow the hull to shore. it was just a nightmare. i don t care to think what could have happened. but the potential for disaster was very, very great. possibly not everybody would have survived. simply put, those guys did a great job on the day. there are a lot of people who could have died on that day. but for the skill and expertise