1: Episode 1
Mar 3, 1999
A family are recording as a 117-A Stealth Fighter crashes into their neighbors' house. Hikers climb near a 1000 year old glacier and as tourists get close it suddenly breaks apart; they are washed against the rocks and swept away. On the 66th anniversary of Houdini's death escape artist Bill Shirk is buried alive in a plexiglass coffin under mud and concrete. A suicidal man packs his car full of explosives because his marriage failed, he threatens to blow himself and the town up. The entire 200-member choir and the bleachers crash down through the floor into the basement of a concert hall. Police surround the home of a wanted suspect under return fire. Balloons coming in for landings, one hits a building and another hits power lines, it is stuck on the wires when suddenly the fuel tanks explode. A very nervous bank-robber holds a knife to the neck of a woman. People do their best to survive inside a raging forest fire. Skydivers plan to do a mass jump, they taxi out with no problems, then seconds later an engine explodes and rocks the plane. Two girls broke through the ice on Saskatchewan river. Big Eli Ferris wheel, the bar breaks and a girl hangs upside down 47 feet above ground. A hardened criminal meets a bottle-hit across his head. A javelin thrower tosses his final pole and the referee can't see it from the blinding sun, it hits the old man.
