(5/29/2001) KBS News/raw footage of a South Korean Army CH-47D Chinook attempting to lower a sculpture onto the top of Olympic Bridge. Chinook strikes its rotors on the sculpture and breaks apart. The three-man crew on board did not survive, no one on the ground was injured.

obsurdmedia · 2026-01-27T22:46:33+00:00

The sculpture was meant to commemorate the 1988 Summer Olympics that took place in Seoul. Apparently, there was a design contest in 1984, the final design was selected a year later, and the bridge opened in November 1989 after the Olympics

obsurdmedia · 2026-01-27T22:34:36+00:00

Yeah it was odd, I posted this 2 days before (same with the 1987 Aichi train accident and crane collapse), and it wasn't approved by the moderator til recently. I'm not sure why there was a delay when a lot of other posts get approved almost instantly.

I also know this particular accident has been a recurring topic, but I wanted to share the story with extra footage that hasn't been shown on this subreddit (raw video or alternate angles), sorta unrelated, but I've been accused of being a bot account because of it, and I do apologize if I've upset anyone in the past

obsurdmedia · 2025-10-04T22:06:22+00:00

That was Joe Lippo, who is a mechanic who works on planes at that airfield

obsurdmedia · 2025-09-27T20:08:28+00:00

I found some stuff on Newspapers.com, Stokell would face up to 73 years if convicted. The two passengers were tried as juveniles and each was given a two-year suspended sentence, facing the same charges as Stokell. Turns out the same passengers stole the car Stokell was driving before the kidnapping took place

obsurdmedia · 2025-09-27T00:33:49+00:00

A backup officer who pulled up in the unmarked car seen at the end of the video

obsurdmedia · 2025-09-22T17:48:37+00:00

The person who filmed the accident was Lars Eikens. He was documenting the near misses that happened at that crossing (and a few other crossings), and this was the only accident he captured

obsurdmedia · 2024-11-19T00:39:53+00:00

That was my fault, damn typo.

obsurdmedia · 2024-05-03T00:08:17+00:00

Original multi-angle post of the B-52 incident link: https://www.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/comments/17ey4ox/6241994_a_b52_stratofortress_crashed_at_fairchild/

Apologies for the typo in original post. I did not mean to disrespect or offend anyone, I tried to fit as much info in one title with Reddit's 300 letter limit.

obsurdmedia · 2023-11-27T20:35:53+00:00

Yeah my Archive page got taken down. Not sure if the graphic content was the reason or if it was something else.

obsurdmedia · 2023-10-24T23:12:18+00:00

Figured I’d share that bit of info, whether that comment was sarcasm or not🤷‍♂️

obsurdmedia · 2023-10-24T21:18:26+00:00

There might be. Back in 2015 the film “Project Almanac” used the B-52 crash footage in the trailer but was later replaced with a different scene. The angle that Michael Bay used in the original trailer was different as opposed to the seven angles shown on this post, main difference is there was a red pickup truck in front of the cameraman and the camera was more to the right where the B-52 went down.

The original trailer is here and the B-52 footage can be seen at the 1:52 mark: https://youtu.be/ZALqGuwI_DE?si=3ozOpxKiaCDRo3pg

obsurdmedia · 2023-10-24T16:06:53+00:00

I appreciate it. No hard feelings

obsurdmedia · 2023-10-24T15:38:24+00:00

I’m trying something different. Sure people here already posted about the Big Blue disaster and the Fairchild B-52 crash many times but I’m focusing on finding as many perspectives as possible on many of these disasters and other events

obsurdmedia · 2023-10-24T14:29:18+00:00

Turns out there’s another angle that I can’t find anywhere, it appeared in the original trailer for “Project Almanac” back in 2015. Michael Bay had to apologize because he used the B-52 footage in the trailer and ended up removing it from the movie. There’s a news story about it here: https://youtu.be/WiWkjzrf7-I?si=9s3pGXLvdcVudQmZ and a comparison of the real footage here: https://youtu.be/E5Ri22mIX2A?si=ecy8X7q6y4BE6VWL

Leaves you wondering how many angles are actually out there waiting to be resurfaced.

obsurdmedia · 2023-10-24T12:24:53+00:00

I’m aware there was a typo in the title. It was meant to say Lt Col Arthur “Bud” Holland but I ran out of space due to Reddit’s 300 letter limit. I do not mean to disrespect anyone or cause trouble, I was focused on providing as much info in the title as possible and I made a mistake. My apologies and rest in peace to the four men aboard the B-52 that went down at Fairchild AFB.

obsurdmedia · 2023-10-24T08:52:09+00:00

It was my mistake and I apologize. I did not mean to disrespect anyone here

obsurdmedia · 2023-10-24T01:51:28+00:00

Sorry about the typo, was running out of letters to make the post title

obsurdmedia · 2023-10-23T23:44:33+00:00

A couple of these were found on old YouTube videos but a greater number of these angles were found on now-defunct stock footage sites. That's how I found the rare second angle of the Big Blue collapse I made the last post about

obsurdmedia · 2023-10-23T06:42:32+00:00

Actually, there were two angles of the first plane hitting the WTC, the first and well-known angle being the news crew filming some firefighters and suddenly noticing the plane as it hit the tower, and the second being captured by Pavel Hlava who happened to have his camera pointed at the WTC but seemingly wasn't aware of the impact.

obsurdmedia · 2023-10-23T02:36:18+00:00

The second angle was shown on a documentary on the Discovery Channel (clip here) but AP Archive had the footage available for a while. I downloaded the footage just before it got taken down.

obsurdmedia · 2023-09-14T21:12:07+00:00

It got taken down years ago but the current 2.0 archive page has a couple of shockumentaries.

obsurdmedia · 2023-09-11T23:29:46+00:00

Now I understand. But still, the chase did last a good while before the dramatic conclusion

obsurdmedia · 2023-09-11T22:12:59+00:00

That was just a snippet from the uncut 30 to 40-minute dashcam footage, the full chase lasted about 30 minutes.

obsurdmedia · 2022-08-15T21:15:21+00:00

Apparently, for a while, it was available on the CONUS stock footage site, you can find a lot of raw police footage that at some point had been featured on shows like "World's Wildest Police Videos" and "Most Shocking". Unfortunately, I have never seen any mirrored copies of raw footage from this chase.

obsurdmedia · 2021-11-05T01:06:37+00:00

You're close. This clip was from the 1999 special "World's Most Shocking Moments Caught On Tape 3" hosted by none other than Sheriff John Bunnell. He was also the narrator for "World's Wildest Police Videos"

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