What's the worst thing you have ever witnessed first-hand happen on live tv?

[MyCheeryPearlTraybake]

For me it would have to be Christian Eriksson collapsing at the euros in 2021

Whoops!!

Sorry got it wrong! Obviously Berlin Wall and Moon landings were not worst things I've seen live! Just things I remembered seeing live!

Eejit!

9/11. I was only 16, and I was at home on my own, skiving sixth form. I couldn't quite understand or comprehend what I was seeing. It was just so unbelievable. Those images will haunt me for ever.

9/11 obviously
Heysel stadium. It was my birthday and we were having birthday cake and a cup of tea.
Challenger. I was watching it on Newsround with my two little boys. They were obsessed with the space shuttle and were sitting there with their model shuttles very excited.

I didn't know anything about 9/11 until the following day.

So for me, the Beslan school siege was the worst. I'm not sure that all of that footage should have been shown. I think it was too intrusive.

Grenfell Tower was also awful. I remember seeing a light on the top floor flickering on and off, then realising it wasn't caused by damage to the electrics. It was somebody deliberately signalling for help.

i was so upset and shocked by Marco Simoncelli’s crash at the moto GP

Aside from some of the more obvious ones, Grosjean and his crash in the F1. Unbelievable that he made it out alive, still gives me shivers thinking about it.

My earliest memory is a bit confused but I was watching tv and it got interrupted with a news flash (remember those days?) I think it was the zeebrugge disaster (could have been Lockerbie) I remember being transfixed - I was only 9 or 10 and I was devastated. A few weeks later I recalled that I had recorded a film so put the tape in the vcr and half way through the film the news flash appeared again (obviously because I had recorded it) I remember screaming at my mum that it had happened again 🤦🏽‍♀️
Obviously 9/11
The Berlin Wall
The Chilean miners being rescued - my dc and I sat watching it all

This wasn't live streamed, but I remember arriving in Portugal on honeymoon, having got married the day before. We put the tv on when we got to the hotel and on the news was the Omagh bombing footage.

Rest In Peace all those who were killed.

I know I'm too sensitive, but I really wished I hadn't seen it because I just could not get it out of my mind.

Oops sorry - you said worst. Obviously the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rescue of the Chilean miners wasn’t.

I remember the Ayrton Senna race ☹️

Hillsborough -
I can’t recall when it was but years ago 2 , I think off duty soldiers , got ambushed by a mob in N Ireland and were stripped beaten and murdered - horrific .
9/11 I’ve watched the footage but not live I listened to it all unfolding on the radio in the car .

Christian Eriksen collapsing on the pitch in Euro 2020 having suffered a cardiac arrest.
Frightening.

Also the 2005 London bombings. I was in the fracture clinic with my newborn who had bilateral talipes and it was on all the tv screens in the hospital. My DD’s consultant was Indian and his phone kept ringing from family back in India asking him if he was ok even though we were 100 miles from London

I didn't see 9/11 until that evening as I was in court (working, not being tried). The worst I saw live was Grenfell I think, made worse by the fact that I had to catch a train from Paddington later that day and the fire was still burning when I drove past.

I was 7 when 9/11 happened. I was poorly and off school that day, on the sofa watching TV. It immediately flashed onto the news and my mum was blissfully unaware what was happening as she was in the kitchen cleaning with music on.

Not on TV - but I was in Paris when the terrorist attacks in 2015 happened. And again in central london when the London Bridge 2017 attacks happened.

Not live but in the moment, I remember seeing the Michael Buerk/BBC footage of the. famine in Ethiopia in 1984. I was 7/8 and I remember feeling really sad and then guilty for having a home and food to eat. It has always stuck with me.

I saw this when I was very young, for some reason I recall it being shown in real time on World of Sport or Grandstand.
I have a vague memory of the Raoul Moat manhunt being live on the news, with them announcing that Paul Gascoigne had arrived at the scene.
9/11 I was at work and the internet became intermittent but a colleague was getting text updates from a friend whose office was connected to Reuters. Tools were literally downed for the whole day, it was so shocking.
On a very much lighter note, when Madonna fell down the stairs onstage at the Brits my shocked gasp woke my sleeping DH.

in real life it was seeing David Busst’s leg being broken at Old Trafford. To this day I can’t bear to see any pictures (of him or any broken bones) as I was near enough to see every bend and break. You could hear a pin drop in the 50,000+ crowd.

on TV 9/11, Hillsborough, Valley Parade Bradford Fire, Senna, Princess Diana’s death … recently events in Ukraine and Palestine (and the events in Israel). There are too many horrific things in the world and I sometimes long for the days when things weren’t live and readily available!

To see that second hit live was utterly surreal.

My dad was watching Sky news with Kay Burley presenting and after footage cut to New York at around 1:55 he then called me to come see the first tower burning. Hearing it was a plane impact (think they thought it was a small plane if memory serves) and we chatted and were both certain it was an accident, pilot or navigation error, but that second hit and the ball of fire from it removed that thought immediately. The memory of all that is so vivid because it was so unbelievable to see it. Action film × 1000.

Absolutely nothing will ever come close to seeing that as it happened.

Other mentions,

Louise Woodward guilty verdict. Instant gasp.

Aryton Senna receiving chest compressions with the helicopter providing footage ot it as it hovered directly above him.

The incident wasn't shown of course but sitting up until whatever time in the morning it was to hear the news presenter say Diana Princess of Wales has died. Easily the most shocking death in my lifetime.

9/11. Was on my lunch break and watched live on tv as the second plane hit. I still can't put into words how it made me feel.

Also, same as @MyCheeryPearlTraybake Christian Eriksson collapsing and receiving CPR live on TV. Couldn't get that out of my head for a long time.

Only saw it later on during MOTD, but that is the most gruesome injury I've ever seen. Schmeichel in goal walks away after seeing it.

Tottie's house going on fire and killing Birdie. ☹️

9/11 definitely.

2012 Tsunami in Japan.

Australian Bush fires 2019. The population of a town waiting not on the beach but in the ocean for a navy ship coming to evacuate them, holding up children and pets in the water. Other creatures dying behind them on land, screaming. The sky was red and black with smoke even though it was the middle of the day. Knowing that was only a tiny part of a fire front the size of Germany killing billions of animals, hundreds of people, with smoke clouds so big they crossed oceans and thinking - is this the future of the planet?

@ChessorBuckarooHe threw up behind the goal. Busst never played again.

Apart from 9/11, the Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania in 1996. The aftermath was live on the news before the killer was caught. Horrific.

Oh god, yes the 2019 bushfires. I also remember seeing all the people in the water waiting for the navy ships. My heart broke for them.