The premiere episode of CHAOS: CAUGHT ON CAMERA features the events that led a blustery autumn day in Illinois to spawn a deadly tornado. The mountains in the United Kingdom may not be as grand as the Himalayas, yet when ice-climber Mark Roberts loses his footing, the result is a terrifying 300-meter vertical slide. Nine skydivers are thrown from two planes following a mid-air collision at 3,658 meters - will they survive the resulting fireball and free-fall? An industrial crane gets out of control, flooding a Russian factory floor with molten metal. Finally, a 500,000-kilogram bolder crashes down a 500-meter cliff toward unsuspecting traffic in Taiwan.
A rescue team tries to save a man who was trapped underwater for three days in the Gulf of Guinea. Meanwhile, a Chevrolet Impala finds safety while fleeing a hungry cheetah in South Africa. In France, a daredevil extreme sportsman tries to tackle one of the world's most dangerous ski runs; a massive explosion rocks a Russian city; and back in France, a 30,000,000 kilogram cliff collapses into the sea. Finally, in Russia, will two parachutists survive a disastrous mid-air collision?
In Texas, a massive explosion in a fertilizer plant rocks the state, and an unlucky construction worker is forced to choose between a potentially lethal leap or a fiery death. Also in this edition of CHAOS: CAUGHT ON CAMERA, a family in Peru is trapped in an upturned car that is rapidly filling with water. In Utah, a base jump goes wrong, a botched rescue at a frozen lake in Wyoming leaves almost a dozen people floundering in icy water, and a homemade hot-air balloon lands on a huge pile of fireworks just meters from a crowd of thousands in Burma.
A paraglider in the Indian Himalayas collides with a huge griffon vulture mid-flight, and the pair plummets toward the ground in this episode of CHAOS: CAUGHT ON CAMERA. A raging bull elephant attacks a couple on safari in South Africa. A Russian rocket launch goes catastrophically wrong when it nose-dives back to Earth, exploding in a toxic cloud of debris. Finally, a freak weather storm on Australia's sunshine coast creates a 3-meter foam blanket, smothering everything in its wake.
In brazil, in this astonishing episode of CHAOS: CAUGHT ON CAMERA, a lone man attempts to rescue an entire family trapped by a flash flood, an unstoppable wall of ice ploughs through a Minnesota community, and in India, a tiger attacks a man in an effort to protect her cubs. A man films a tornado as it rips through his Oklahoma town, leaving a trail of destruction. In Texas, a landing airplane crashes into a SUV, a deer attacks a dog in Canada, and a woman dodges death by mere millimeters when a huge tree collapses in Ukraine.
A skydiving incident in California leaves an 80-year-old grandmother hanging on for her life in this episode of CHAOS: CAUGHT ON CAMERA. An avalanche buries a seasoned skier and his friends desperately try to rescue him from underneath meters of snow in Switzerland. Finally, a couple is caught in the midst of a raging fire in Russia and the only way to escape is to drive through the middle of it.
Alex Wyndham
Narrator
Sam Barcroft
Producer
Neil Laird