The Darkest Moments in TV History 3

UPDATE: This video was removed because of a copyright claim from the WWE. I had to trim a portion of chapter 4 out which is why the edit might seem jarring. The video is still under dispute and unfortunately might be taken down again so enjoy it while it’s here! The whole situation is really disappointing as this was one of my best performing videos before it was taken down, but I’m just happy it’s back up again.🙏🏻

Mick Philpott intentionally setting a fire so he can look like a hero after putting it out is literally textbook hero syndrome.

During the helicopter crash, hearing the guy say "Whoa JESUS!" right before they crash, then hearing his scream just fade away is honestly bone-chilling.

"I think it was scott" that just hurts even more hearing him panicking because of that helicopter collision. I feel so bad for everyone that was effected by that crash.

Mick Philpott is a good example of how bad the English legal system is. Getting 7 year for stabbing someone 12 times is ridiculous.

Hearing that reporter say "I think it was Scott.." broke my heart

As someone from the UK Mick Philpott is much much eviler than described here. There’s documentaries about the family before the fire and it’s heartbreaking to see the kids running around carefree not knowing what was waiting for them.

The helicopter case made me remember the death of one of Brazil's biggest journalists Ricardo Boechat. He died of a helicopter accident right after presenting a morning show on the radio and later giving a talk. It was so heartbreaking to see all his fellow journalists grieving and crying as they gave the news of his death.

The Chris Benoit one is really sad. The effects head trauma has over time is scary. Hearing his friend's account is sad too. My grandfather had dementia and would get violent or angry sometimes but was too weak to truly do any harm. Now imagine an angry dementia patient with the strength of a roided man.. it makes me wonder what he was thinking and if he had "come to" and realized what he did and killed himself. We'll never know. A truly sad story.

When I clicked on this, I was not expecting to see coverage of an accident involving someone I knew. Rick Krolak, the cameraman for channel 15 in the helicopter crash (13:07), was my cousin's father and my uncle before he and my aunt divorced. I remember being at my university when my mom called me with the news. There is now a memorial for the two pilots and two cameramen in the park where they crashed.

The helicopter collision is probably the most devastating thing I've seen in a while. The reactions of the friends and coworkers of the four men who perished is heartbreaking, and I only wish peace to those who passed away.

To quote Paul Heyman on the Chris Benoit incident: "Three died that nights and only one of them had a choice." Really morbid, but so true...

The helicopter thing is insane. They both wanted the same shot. All that air space, and you end hitting the only other thing in it. Kind of hard to imagine.

As far as the Benoit situation, William Regal lived very close to Benoit, so he was intimately familiar with the domestic problems Chris and Nancy had been having. He’d been called on a couple of occasions to calm Benoit down when he was angry or upset. So, Regal knew a lot more than everyone else at the memorial show, which is why he made the very vague and somewhat cryptic comments about him and his family.

As a Chilean, it really cannot be overstated how much the plane crash impacted the country. Not only did pretty much everyone watch calle 7 every night, as a family, but also Felipe Camiroaga was and is somewhat of a symbol, especially for elderly women of the country. Before hes death he was an idol, but after he became somewhat of a divine figure (not exaggerating, look up some photos of homemade shrines or calendars of him). Sad stuff all around, I vividly remember the night that I saw that calle 7 episode live, since I was around 8 years old or so, my mom made me and my sister get out of the kitchen and covered our ears so as to not hear.

The screaming in the helicopter 13:50 is freaking bone chilling

the last case perfectly encapsulates the saying "men are afraid that women will laugh at them, women are afraid that men will kill them". what a fragile person to kill someone over some embarassment.

I’ve seen several documentaries about Mick Philpott. Such a heartbreaking case. He was a level of evil that I will never understand.

It's worth pointing out that Benoit did a lot more than just "strangle" Nancy. He drugged his son and had him die in his sleep, but Nancy was brutalized almost beyond recognition, and the crime scene was said to have looked almost like a tornado had gone through the house. She was conscious for the majority of the assault. He had also killed the family's pets and left them inside the family pool, one of the final text messages he sent to Chavo Guerrero was "The dogs are in the enclosed pool area." (Edit: He apparently didn't kill the dogs, he put them in the pool area on leash, probably so neighbors/police wouldn't be afraid to investigate the house. Bizarre) The case was so much worse than what was said in the video. You can listen to Nancy Benoit's sister talk more about it in-depth on an older episode of Chris Jericho's podcast, Talk is Jericho.

The Bird's Eye View segment really does a succinct job in highlighting how dangerous the media's obsession to be "First" can be. Also, of course Philpott was on Jeremy Kyle, a show that just recently had its run halted by being accused of causing a suicide in one of its "contestants" in a similar vein of how "To Catch A Predator" ended, albeit with much less law enforcement involved.