Rubbish about it being staged…. there was nothing staged about that heartbreaking incident with the boys in the frozen lake, and Hillsborough. Or watching that recent tragedy, seeing an entire block of flats in flames. I remember it all too well. Devastating. Shame on you.
@@lilyfromengland I know right? Like there's no such thing as 'British culture' like my culture differs vastly from those in England, Scotland and even Ireland
@@daidavies90 Except tea is generally referred to as a British thing rather than an English thing so the OP was correct. Also, your culture doesn't differ from the rest of us at all, you have your own language and that's about it, if the difference between Wales and Scotland is vast then fuck knows how you'd describe the difference between Wales and Zimbabwe...
@@crownsbritain933 you don’t have to know kids, to be upset by their deaths. Also how do you know she hadn’t suffered child loss in the past and it triggered something in her?
That’s Joanna Gosling on BBC News (Channel). She was one of the presenters who left, before all the recent sweeping BBC cuts were made and the BBC World / News channels merged. I remember her choking up at the time about this and just thinking how human she was to react like that. What happened was so incredibly sad, that it would upset you and so the fact she displayed what were all thinking as she had to report the breaking news live, was just reassuring to see. Natural to apologise, but she really didn’t have to, her reaction was absolutely understandable ❤
Yeah. As a human being, of course she has emotions. It’s sad when children die because their parents and probably grandparents outlive them. Nobody wants to outlive their children or grandchildren. Nobody wants to receive news like that. These children had their whole lives ahead of them and it all ended.
I’ll never forget one of my teachers walking into class close to tears after grenfell. She told us she used to live very close to grenfell tower and had friends who lived there by the end of telling us that she was near sobbing then she told us she’d be taking a few days off as her and her partner were going to go see if they could do anything to help. There was only one other student in my class and we were 17 and in year 12 so fully understood what was happening. We were close to crying with her that day and it was an emotional lesson
I worked near grenfell, saw the building on fire and smelt the smoke. A colleagues family was from that tower I think they were taken to hospital and placed in a coma. I saw that building every day thr shock never leaves you when you looked through that shell
Theirs curtain things that happen in life that you remember exactly where when and how you found out I remember my mum waking me up on a morning for school and the first thing she said to me after waking me up was theirs been another terrorist attack last night later I found out it was Manchester
I am 76 and in the autum of my years and have seen death and destruction in many forms. Believe me this posting shows what a fragile tight rope we all walk in life. Enjoy what you have, tell your family and friends of your love for them, bring them love and laughter and always do what is best and be a good person so they can follow your example.
TBF, they aren't claiming they are the same, it's just a list of 10 TV tragedies, and going by her mentioning the smell of bacon, I don't think it was just hair TBH
I remember getting ready for work the morning of the Grenfell disaster. I will never ever forget seeing, on live TV, a woman leaning out of the window begging to be rescued as the building burnt around her.
Tommy Cooper and sid james died on stage and people thought it was part of the act so sad,but Hillsborough will never be forgotten that was the most heartbreaking and changed the way football stands changed now
Exactly. Anthea Turner's hair getting singed (she's got some shock) and a stunt gone wrong on Noel's Late Late breakfast show cannot be regarded as tragedies in comparison with Tommy Cooper and Gareth Jones actually dying. Grenfell and Hillsborough were disasters and don't really belong in this sequence. That's what I hate about these Mojo shorts. I adored Jenny Powell though.
@@KebabMusicLtd How can you call Tommy Cooper's death a tragedy? He was in his sixties, was both a heavy drinker and smoker and was overweight. It was his time.
The way the presenter plays it down in the most British way possible: "She's ok, she's just gone to first aid and she's gonna have a nice hot cup of tea"
The Hillsborough disaster is the reason I stopped watching live newscasts for many years. Those horrible images were seared into my brain at 10 years old and it’s something I can never unsee no matter how hard I try. 😞
Yes, I remember this I was five. Also the Bradford city fire was a nasty one too. As a motorsport fun, I have to mention Roland Ratzenberger Ayrton Senna Jules Bianchi and Antoine Hubert. Sad to think we’ve lost van ‘t Hoff this weekend just gone too.
Another one that springs to mind, the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix, which was being broadcast live on Sunday Grandstand on 1st May 1994. Probably the bleakest weekend F1 has seen in the last 40 years, not only did it include the loss of Ayrton Senna, but the whole weekend was riddled with incidents, accidents and moments that left not only drivers injured or (in the case of Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna) killed, but also left those who weren't even driving the cars exposed to injuries. You know it's bad when Murray Walker, normally the eternal optimist in commentary for Formula One, was extremely downbeat after the race ended: "... Michael Schumacher comes into the Ravazza for the 58th time and he's nearly a minute now ahead of Larini as he comes round certainly to win, commandingly and with a great deal of credit in very difficult circumstances. He exits the Traguado, and the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix has been won by Michael Schumacher, but in circumstances that I'm sure he will not at all happy about, and that's no reflection of him, his ability or his car... "Well, there's no point in trying to pretend that it has been anything other than a very, very unhappy San Marino Grand Prix. But, the one piece of good news I can give you is that Michael Schumacher has won, that Damon Hill has finished in 6th position, sandwiching between them [is] Nicola Larini in second, Mika Hakkinen third, [Karl] Wendlinger fourth and Ukyo Katayama in fifth place..."
As soon as I saw this video my immediate thought was that I’d see this tragedy on here, and I’m honestly shocked to find it wasn’t. It was a devastating race to watch and I was in tears through it. 😢
@thejellies5192 not surprised, it was a horrendous shock to everyone who was even remotely interested in or associated with F1. 8 years without a fatal accident in any context, 12 years without a race meeting fatality, suddenly there were 2 drivers killed in 2 days. Probably the most forgotten incident was the last nasty incident. As Michele Alboreto left the pit lane after his last fuel and tyre stop, he accelerated to roughly 90mph (with no pit lane speed limit back then) when his right rear wheel came off. It ploughed through the pits of Benetton, Ferrari and Lotus, injuring 4 mechanics from the latter 2 teams. Steve Matchett, who was a mechanic at the Benetton team at the time, expressed the mood after that incident quite well: "That was really, the final straw that broke the Camel's back. Everyone was like, 'for God's sake, let this weekend stop, this is a living nightmare, stop it now,'" Such was the shock of what happened, he said that he wrote in his diary that he couldn't remember the trivialities of the race, had no memory of participating in the pit stops for Schumacher, but the footage showed they did, so they must have done. He also talked about the desire to be at home, to leave Imola, to "escape the curse that had lingered over the race track the whole weekend, it had been relentless and we desperately wanted it to stop."
@@SiVlog1989 Alboreto's wheel came off after a pit stop on lap 48 and injured Ferrari and Lotus mechanics. It was Eric Comas who left the pits and was going full speed towards the crash.
@decb Comas was let out of the pits after Senna's accident after a breakdown in communication led to him wrongly being informed that he could rejoin the track, despite being under red flag conditions (the helicopter brought in to take Senna to hospital was on the track at the time). Everyone expressed confusion why it happened
@@SiVlog1989 Barrichello, who was driving for Jordan at the time, also had a very nasty accident at the same race meeting. I think his accident was in free practice and was arguably worse than the Ratzenberger or Senna incidents but Rubens walked away with relatrively minor injuries (although I believe he didn't take part in the actual race itself). The sad thing is that Barrichello was a countryman and good friend of Senna's and Senna visited him after the crash. It's reported that an Austrian flag was also found in Senna's car after his death which he intended on raising after finishing the race in tribute to Ratzenberger. Senna was also one of the drivers who wanted the race to be cancelled in light of what had happened. I was only a child at the time but was bang into my F1 back then, so I remember this quite well.
I'll never forget the Hillsborough disaster. I was a young teenager and it was very traumatising to see people die in that way and the absolute shambles it was. What followed was even worse, the way those families were treated. The Grenfell tragedy hit hard too, those images will stay with me forever. I hope nobody will ever suffer like that again but unfortunately there are still hundreds of buildings in danger with the same cladding.
I'll always remember the Hillsborough disaster because I had a dentist appt that morning. As I was walking to the dentist, a long line of cars with Liverpool scarves and flags hanging out the windows went passed me. As the cars slowed down near the traffic lights, I was getting some funny banter from the fans who for some reason were not amused when I said I was a Manchester United fan..! Seeing them heading to Sheffield in such good spirits and then seeing the scenes from Hillsborough just a few hours later is something I will always have with me. I often wonder if I had spoken with any one who died that day?
@@robinmabbott7334 Got a right fanatic 'ere, 'ent we, lads? Mind you, I saw some people seriously saying that the cladding was put on "so the rich neighbours don't have to look at such ugly poor people housing". But that's Londoners for you, isn't it? The capital really needs to be relocated, ot maybe London should just secede and become it's own country.
I remember watching the Bradford City fire as it happened. The game was being covered by Yorkshire TV the disaster was shown on World of Sport as it unfolded
I’m from Bradford & remember my dad panicking, he thought his parents were there. Thankfully they had gone out for the day on a train and the number of people trying to rush in and out of Bradford made the trains heavily delayed. They weren’t answering their house phone & of course long before mobile phones. It was a horrible panic for many hours, until eventually he managed to get hold of them & we were relieved, but then felt guilty because there were many people that night that we are far from relieved.😢
I remember watching the match between Bradford City and Lincoln City at Valley Parade live on 11 May 1985. My elderly uncle and I couldn't believe what was unfolding before our very eyes. RIP all 56 that passed in this disaster, and condolences to their families and friends.😥 ❤
Apparently, my twin sister and I were watching that. However, our Mum saw what was happening and turned the TV off - not wanting us to see it (we were 5 at the time).
Ooff, yeah that's a tough one. We had to watch a video of that in some course I did about responding to large scale emergencies and the instructor wanted to show how quickly fire can spread and get completely out of control and how people panic. It was very distressing. I think there was a man actually on fire - that stuck with me. 😢
Yes it seemed that just about everybody saw that happen live. It was so quick the way that it happened as well. I think the most awful moment which sticks in our memories was the man staggering out with his back in flames and the announcer saying 'Oh look at that poor man!'. He apparently died a few days later.
My boyfriend is a lot older than me, we live in Bradford and he was at that game that tragic day. He'll never get over it and pays his respects every year at the anniversary. It was so very sad for all involved.
I remember watching Tommy Cooper & having this awful feeling that something was wrong….. But the Hillsborough disaster really upset me when it still being broadcast, I remember crying as I watched 😢😢
I'm not British but I had watched a British fire PSA/PIF that depicted a burning cigarette with the speed of the fire on the Hillsborough incident. Several RU-vid videos also covered the incident on their channel
@@charliejoson9145 Bradford stadium was the one that went up in flames, I saw the same footage during my time as a firewarden in one of the buildings I worked at agree it happens superfast...Hillsborough was the crushing incident...😢😢
Re: Tommy Cooper: I still remember seeing that the night it was shown on TV. It seemed like an age before they cut to a commerical break and you can actually see those behind the curtain (Jimmy Tarbuck) trying to drag Tommy off stage as his large shoes were still visible to the audience. He was a big guy and not easy to move. Other acts went on with those feet still present. First to take the stage after him was Les Dennis and Dustin Gee. Little did anyone realise that the Grim Reaper was still wandering around back stage and would be back for Mr Gee within about 18 months.
My bestie went to Hillsborough on the 15th of April to watch our beloved Liverpool FC play Nottingham in the FA cup semi final. He made it home. The guilt he felt along with others is heart breaking to this day. Justice, the truth was told but my bestie and others feel guilt everyday. The empathic beautiful strength we have.. Liverpool FC is our family and we stand together. YNWA
Mate there is so much wrong with The Late Late Breakfast Show segment it is unbelieveable. First they said it was a morning programme! WRONG! It was a live broadcast Satarday primetime programme just like his later Noels House Party. Second like you say Michael Lush was a member of the public. according to wikipedia he was a hod carrier taking part in that same stunt bit as that other man and Third it was his death that got the programme cancelled.
I remember watching that Tommy Cooper performance on TV. My parents laughed when he collapsed, but soon realised it wasn't part of the act. In doing daft things like he did, there wouldn't be a direct assumption it was real. RIP Tommy, a legend in his time.
I was 13 and saw it. If anyone saw it, you saw it live, not many VCRs back then. You watched it and thought " That's a bit odd but it's funny because it's Tommy Cooper but when they went straight to adverts, a chill went through you. The same feeling you got whenever a news flash came on. The skin tightens all over your head. It was only afterwards, days and weeks afterwards, that you realised that THAT was exactly how Tommy Cooper should have gone out. Live On stage, in the spotlight, with the audience applauding. Knowing he was loved. And he was, absolutely, loved. And I remember it still at this very moment. This is the first time I've seen it since it happened. It's still chilling. Gor bless ya Governor.
I said to my Mother that he didn't look well and after the assistant put the robe on him he had a pained look on his face....After he collapsed I just knew he had gone!! During the break they announced that he'd gone,the show carried on in Tommy's honour( I think they brought Les Dennis on?)and Jimmy Tarbuck made a speech after the show finished. Sad loss
Tommy's daughter knew their was something wrong because she said he wouldnt fall to the ground like that on purpose because he had a bad back and was hard for him to get back up,a true comic legend.
A similar fate (albeit not on TV) befell legendary American Redd Foxx (who stared in the US version of Steptoe & Son). On the set of his comeback comedy series Royal Family. Foxx suffered a fatal heart attack. No one rushed to his rescue since they all thought he was doing his "Elizabeth, I'm commin' to join you, Honey" routine.
All of these were sad. As a Londoner however, especially as a west Londoner, I will always be biased. The Grenfell Tower fire was one of the biggest tragedies in modern history. Especially since it should never have happened. The residents had complained about how unsafe the building was multiple times 💔💔💔
Edmonds used to giggle hysterically at the fear experienced by the people doing the stunts for his programme....when it all went wrong then he played the victim to salvage his career.
I moved to the U.K. in 2011, right before the New Year of 2012. I remember Grenfell and how horrible it was and seeing that charred, empty apartment building and knowing people lost their lives “staying put” was devastating
Thing is staying put should have been the best thing to do, the building and most others are designed to stop fire spreading, staying in your flat is or at least should be the safest thing to do, unfortunately nobody there knew about the flammable cladding that had been fitted.
@@spyrytaraxalass It is if the building is designed to contain the spread of fire to the location in which it started. The original project for Grenfell was like that, but what the firefighters and really not most anyone else didn't know is that the shoddy refurbishment job had undone most of the fire halting features while it introduced some new fire spreading ones
Denmark v Finland at football. Suddenly Christian Eriksen was down. The way his team mates surrounded him and the urgency with which they waved the medics on. I instinctively said out loud 'this is bad.'
The Circle of Life. The actions of the Danish players was well and truly admirable and heartfelt. They protected their teammate from the watching eyes in the stadium and tv screens whilst the medical staff got to work attending to Eriksen.
I was watching the game, what made the incident even more horrible was the director choosing to broadcast the CPR efforts and distraught response of Eriksen's wife. Totally lacking respect or taste.
@@seanbonella no it's called strenuous activity whilst having an underlying heart condition, lots of people have undiagnosed heart arrhythmia, which can cause sudden cardiac arrest. This is treated with a pacemaker which eriksen now has.
Have a lot of respect for Les Dennis and Dustin Gee, they had to do their act whilst first aiders were trying to resuscitate Tommy behind them. I couldn't have done that.
They say that every performer's worst nightmare is to die on stage, comedians in particular. So it's unbearably sad that Tommy Cooper faced a literal, rather than metaphorical or symbolic, death.
Watched the Tommy Cooper one live with my long departed dear old mum in the living room. They did a reasonable job of avoiding upsetting viewers I think. I think me and mum just did a bit of a "what went off there?" sort of thing. And forgot about it until it was announced later on the news that he had passed away on stage.
They went into an earlier than planned ad break. Les Dennis and Dustin Gee did the next routine while Tommy was still receiving emergency treatment just behind the curtain.
I saw the smoke from the Grenfell fire, coming over the horizon, through my bathroom windows. I live further north in London and on the same side of the North Circular. Unbelievable nightmare. 🥺
@@markgoldspink5109 Which is disgusting. Hopefully if Labour get in at the next general election, they'll reform the building industry, besides it was them, that built the first public housing anyway, the Conservatives don't care about the poor.
@@markgoldspink5109 It’s a disgrace, isn’t it? I can’t help but wonder if this would be the case had a fire destroyed one of the wealthier apartment block in Kensington & Chelsea?
Tommy Cooper was one of three comedy legends that died during live performances in 1984 - Eric Morecambe and Leonard Rossiter both died during stage performances. Also worth mentioning BBC Look North's Amy Garcia having to tearfully read out the news of her friend and colleague Harry Gration's death in 2022, having only heard the news herself a few minutes earlier.
Eric Morecambe collapsed in the wings after a show with his 3rd heart attack & died later in hospital. Leonard Rossiter died in his dressing room at a London theatre awaiting his cue to go onstage. Tommy Cooper was actually not pronounced dead until his arrival at Westminster hospital. Sid James had a heart attack onstage & was pronounced dead on arrival at Sunderland hospital. All with heart issues.
@@KatMusic2009 One of the famous artists on the Beano / Dandy etc was found dead at the drawing board. People involved in British comedy certainly like to work right up to the end.
@@worldcomicsreview354 That was the great Dudley Watkins. I believe he was part way through drawing a Beano front cover when he passed away, and they needed someone to complete that strip at short notice. That person was the late great Dave Sutherland, who had a legendary (even within the industry) ability to draw effortlessly in other artist's styles, which is why during the 80s, after several deaths and departures from the Beano of their major artists, he ended up for a time drawing basically all of the major strips every week, and thus he then waas able to put his mark on them. The style of drawing that a child of the 80s or early 90s thinks of as 'Beano' style is, with no exaggeration, really 'Dave Sutherland' style. Dave must have really taken Dudley's work ethic to heart, as he passed away earlier this year, aged 89, having drawn at least one Beano strip (and at times in the 70s and 80s as many as five!) every week for over 50 years, and having only reluctantly stopped a few weeks before his death. His last ever strip was published in The Beano shortly after the announcement of his OBE, and the Beano were thankfully able to just once publish his OBE at the end of his name, when for most of his career it was against The Beano's rules to even publish an artist's name.
I remember waking up one morning in June 2017 and turning on the TV then being greeted by the sight of a burning tower. I shouted to my Mum, Mum come look at the TV! And we were both in shock at seeing what was then known as Grenfell Tower burning, Terrible and sad day it was 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
I remember Heysel Stadium, Lockerbie, Hungerford, Hillsborough, Kegworth, Manchester Airport Disaster, Zeebrugge, Clapham rail crash, Piper Alpha, Dunblane, Omagh Bombing, the death of Princess Diana, Ladbroke Grove rail crash, Indian Ocean Tsunami, 7/7 London Bombings, Manchester Arena Bombing and of course, 9/11 all too well... Every one of them a terrible tragedy reported/broadcast on national TV.
The most traumatic news story was from the narrator of this video say that the 'late, late breakfast show' was on in the morning when it was infact a saturday evening show.
This brings to mind a recent one. BBC Look North is live, and near the end of one episode, the presenter Amy Garcia cut to a weather forecast. During the forecast, she had been informed of the death of her former Look North presenting colleague and Yorkshire legend, Harry Gration. She then had to deliver that news to the viewers and she was absolutely inconsolable.
3:15 When the Andrea Doria-Stockholm collision took place the reporter on the dockside reporting events never gave the slightest hint that his 13-year old daughter was a passenger on the Italian passenger liner. At one point the Stockholm sent a list of survivors back to New York, and the reporter's daughter was not on that list. Still he gave no clue that his daughter had been a passenger. The Stockholm had struck the ship right where the girls stateroom was located. He only broke down when they discovered another survivor in the wreckage of what was left of the bow of the Stockholm. That survivor was his daughter.
I remember being 7 and getting home at around 2pm UK time to see people jumping out of the towers and falling to their death. I couldn't believe what I was seeing, I religiously would get home and play N64 but on this day I decided not to out of respect
My ex wife's first husband was there on the day as a Liverpool supporter. His account blames masses of ticketless fans with the South Yorkshire plod doing their best to make a drama out of a crisis as per usual. In all my years as a Wednesday supporter visiting that ground I've lost count of the number of police horses I've had stand on my feet.
@@frankbrodie5168 it’s already been proven and discounted that they were no ticketless fans, that was just an excuse that the police made up because of their failures. It was heavily berated in court that such a suggestion took place. It wasn’t really a time for people trying to get into venues when they haven’t paid, that’s more of a thing people seem to do today.
My cousin was there but on the notts side. I remember my dad telling me that my aunty was worried as it was before everyone had mobile phone ets and didn't know if he was safe.
no she was not, totally unprofssional. when doing news you be impartial and not show emotion, while on camera keep composure no matter how bad story is.
I was watching Tommy Cooper and could tell something was wrong. When they brought down the curtain all I could think was he died with the sound of laughter in his ears.
I think the most traumatic story on this list for me was the Grenfell Tower fire, although I do remember seeing the Hillsborough disaster take place on TV, but not being a football fan it didn’t really affect me. Grenfell on the other hand, brought me back to home as I had lived on the 7th floor of a tower block from 2001 - 2009 and had a small fire there which the smoke affected me. It’s also the place where I watched the Twin Towers collapse. I moved into a house in 2009 and haven’t been back to a high rise since !
I can understand that if you're not a football fan that it may not be of immediate interest to you, but 97 innocent lives (including children) we're lost due to circumstances that should never have happened. The atrocious manner in which the police and the media (especially that toxic rag The Sun) tried to place the blame on the fans and fabricating such stories about fans robbing the dead and urinating on them was beyond despicable. As a life long Manchester United supporter, this is the one instance where fans come together in unity to support the victims. In this case, football is secondary, which is why I'm respectfully at odds with your comment.
I think what the man is trying to say is that it didn't change his life in a way like the Grenfell incident did. He never went to football so he wouldn't need to stop going. However, he had lived in high rise apartments so it affected him in a way that made him stop living in them.
I’d have included Piper Alpha on that list. The memory of the news images with the rig on fire have stayed with me for over 30 years, and it’s always the first thing I think of when someone says disaster.
The Bradford city football fire was shocking to see. It was a live game. Suddenly you saw a load of commotion in the background and the. The fire spread quickly. I was about 11 years old so I understood it was all happening live. I busted into tears when I saw someone running across the field in fire. It was shocking to see. I'm surprised it didn't make it on this list.
I remember that so well, min. For some random reason the football was on our telly that afternoon (we didn't normally watch the Saturday afternoon games on Grandstand or whatever) and there it was: watching the footballers standing looking in confusion at what was happening in the stands.
How on earth was it possible for Noel's Late Late Breakfast Show to EVER get the go ahead??? Shocking imo!!! The poor lady reading the awful news about the children dying bought a lump to my throat as i watched... The emotion she so clearly felt was palpible. Great compilation 💯👍
Hillsborough. Was a terrible tragedy still is ,still no apology for what happened .Liverpool was slagged about it. Yes I am a Liverpudlian . The way we were treated will never be forgotten . I hope it never happens to any other fans . ❤
@@bobwallacejnr6852 ignorance personified. Do you only get your information from the scum papers that spread lie after lie after lie. Just to educate you a little (if that is possible), there was a public enquiry where evidence that had been suppressed by the police was presented. As a result of the enquiry the Liverpool fans were completely exonerated and the blame was placed where it should have been all along on the police. Even the papers that had spread the lies apologised and publicly admitted they were wrong. But I'm guessing with your ignorant opinions you won't accept any of that. Oh and just to clarify I am not a Liverpool fan and I don't come from Liverpool so I don't have a dog in the fight.
@@bobwallacejnr6852 as I’ve already explained here, it has already been disproven in court and seriously berated at the suggestion that they were ticketless fans or any other mob style activity- it was false! This was an excuse made up by police because of their failings. To be honest I’m getting a bit sick of repeating myself here now, people have actually been locked up for making such horrible and false suggestions in public, so you might want to watch yourself!
Several weren't, included the Glasgow Airport terrorist attack where the only people seriously injured were the terrorists, from which one ultimately died. People were joking about the event straight away, because they were so useless and ended up getting a literal kicking from the public - seemingly the worst injuries among the public were a broken leg and some damaged teeth to one member of the public who fought one of them. There's a famous interview with another guy that gave one of the terrorists a kicking.
I consider myself as an emotionally strong person, yet I couldn't help but break, and fight back a tear when that news reporter shared the news of those children. Even the strongest of us have a breaking point, and the news of children dying is always beyond devastating!!!
I remember Grenfell and talking the "Stay Put" advice to friends afterwards. They all said they would have done just that. I wouldn't though, the reason for this is the basic training I received some years ago I was a coal miner. The fundamental point that you can't place absolute faith in the measures in place actually being fail-safe was absolutely drilled into us. A good example of this from industry was Piper Alpha, the only survivors being the ones who disregarded their training to await rescue from the helipad and jumped off the rig (mostly out of sheer desperation, in the enquiry after one admitted that he did so in an attempt to kill himself before he could be burned alive).
@@scorchx3000 Yes, and we studied the incident as a part of our safety training to demonstrate how poor communication and entrenched poor practice can cumulatively lead to disaster. The lessons learned are equally applicable across a lot of industries.
Don't forget the Korean ferry where they were told to put on lifejackets and wait instructions. Only the ones who went up to the deck against orders lived.
Eight people died due to smoke inhalation whilst trying to escape. Their bodies were found in various stairwells and lobbies. Additionally, a mother and two daughters only survived because they were rescued by FF Hill who himself nearly succumbed to heat exhaustion performing the rescue and Edward Daffarn was also found in just the nick of time by FF Hippel and FF Stern as he was about to collapse whilst trying to escape from his flat through thick smoke. As there was no centralised fire alarm, by the time many residents knew of the fire (and called the fire service) it was already too late to escape without BA or a fire escape hood - especially those on the top floors where most people died.
The news person crying that always guts me is seeing Walter Kronkite announce the official notice from the Whitehouse that Pres Kennedy had died. Konkrite was a tough as nails newsman and the devastation on his face is just heartbreaking,
For any Americans watching this, "sugar paper" is what the US calls "construction paper". It's called "sugar paper" because, outside North America, it's primary, if not only, use is for making sugar bags. In the US, we almost never get international news, so this was very informatiive.
The magician and the radio broadcaster really got to me. I’m so glad they didn’t play those moments in this video. In the US, the two most tragic things that I can think of that happened on live TV are when the space shuttle challenger exploded and the second plane going in to the south tower.
I was camping in Scotland during Grenfell. We'd just been to London, our family lived close to Grenfell. I like to listen to BBC Radio4 when camping. It was horrendous, absolutely awful.
Hardest thing I’ve had to watch was the grenfell tower! All those people trapped ina burning building down to saving a few quid! Still no justice for one of them, someone needs to be jailed for that!
Thank you for having enough integrity and respect to not show the actual moments when these tragedies occurred. So many content providers on RU-vid would feel the need to show the entire clip with all of the horrific details and terrifying audio. You have my support.
Complete waste of time to not show them given the title of the video, though. Unless you're 7 years old why even watch the video to begin with if not to satisfy your curiosity to see the events? So dumb.
As someone who has lived in Solihull my whole life, it was an eerie few days when that lake incident happened. I'd never even seen the word Solihull mentioned on a national news broadcast prior to that.
And as a 'thank you' to the wonderfully professional Joanna Gosling, she now has no job with the BBC.... Her emotions were not contrived, she wasn't doing it for effect... My heart and soul went out to her ❤
The Grenfell fire was terrible. Nothing worse than being stuck in a burning blaze not knowing what to do, where to go. And if your with your wife and kids it has to even worse.
Hillsborough Disaster and the Bradford Fire Disaster are two that'll live long in my memory. Seeing that policeman's hair on fire and hearing the commentary for it was heart breaking. San Marino 1994 Grand Prix... horrible. I still remember seeing Senna just come around that corner and smash into the wall. You just knew instantly that he hadn't survived that crash. Of course the day before Roland Ratzenberger also lost his life at the same grand prix.
@@TucBroder Ah, no worries... You pointed out a legitimate mistake. I hadn't even realised and I usually proof read my comment before hitting reply. Have a good day...
One breaking news story that will always stay with me is the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami. I was 14 at the time and had great interest in the news. I woke up that day and went to the bathroom, then I sat on the sofa and put on the TV and put on the news and there it was, I cant remember who was the newscaster but the main headline read; "Tsunami waves hit Southeast Asian countries - at least 5,000 dead with death toll expected to rise" My parents came out of their bedroom about 5 minutes later and we watched the TV together. We left the TV on all day listening to updates and by the time we went to bed the death toll stood at about 85,000.
I grew up in Northern Ireland, I never seen it myself but there were several times where the presenters broke down in tears while reporting in some of the atrocities.
Bradford City football game fire. I was watching it live. I was 15, not a footie fan but the TV on and I sat down, I remember I was reaching for the Radio Times and looked up to see what channel the telly was on, and the fire started. I went completely cold, my stomach turned to lead and I sat there staring at the screen taking it in. The speed the fire spread was shocking, and the poor, poor man on fire. It was just so sad. Whilst not shown live on TV in the same way as the instances mentioned below, the Kings Cross fire also deeply affected me. My Mum used to travel through London on the underground every Thursday to visit my grandparents at exactly the time the fire started, using the same tube station walk ways and escalators. The fire was on a Tuesday yet I knew the station so well as we had no car, so trains / buses were our only means of transport, so it felt very personal. That feeling of dread deep inside.ugghhh.. Do not like that feeling. It's our animal fear sensor kicking in, and familiar to all of us, I'm sure, at some point in our lives. Just awful. So sad.
Like Tommy Copper - Sid James when he past away on stage my parents were there watching it. When he collapsed the audience thought it was a part of the act and were laughing at him. I'm sure as sad as it was for both of these men they would have would have wanted nothing more than to go out with a bang while making their audience laugh.
I remember as a child watching Tommy Cooper die on stage, I was never a fan of his humour and I thought this was his worst joke ever. When I discovered it wasn’t an act I felt so ashamed.
Oh god, I was the same. I usually found him funny but I'm sure I made a sarky comment when his act seemed to end so strangely. I would have been about nine or ten.
