Plot Synopsis

CHAOS CAUGHT ON CAMERA features user-generated content from disastrous situations and is deconstructed with statistics to reveal the life-saving science at the center of the unbelievable events, including catastrophic weather, amazing tales of human endurance, disastrous engineering fails, astonishing animal attacks and near fatal accidents. Each 30-minute episode highlights five different events. The series premiere chronicles 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. Science Channel aired the U.S. premiere of this series on Monday, April 13, 2015 at 10pm ET, two months after the series debuted on Discovery Networks International factual channels around the world in February 2015.