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

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

These were surely all before the 24 hour news cycle started??

9/11 and Grenfell

As well as seeing on TV the 2nd plane going into the tower on 9/11, the things that shocked me and stayed with me were the Herald of Free Enterprise, the Marchioness disaster, the Kings Cross fire, Hillsborough and the reports of the murder of PC Keith Blakelock and his final moments which absolutely horrified me as a child and I couldn't stop thinking about it for a long time.

Before 24 hour news they would have news flashes and interrupt regular programming. Think what happened when the queen died.

I remember that. I was at primary school.

Hillsbrough, 9/11, Grenfell, Roul Moat on the loose

I was working away on 9/11. My job involved purging (emptying) boreholes by hand. Got in the car to go to the next one, heard what I thought was a film review on Chris Moyles' breakfast show. An hour or so later I moved again, and heard the same thing. Much later my boss rang me and realised I didn't know what was happening. Everyone in the office had been watching online, as much as we could in those early days of internet.

On 7/7 I was at a conference, and one of the exhibitors had a tiny telly to show some promotional videos. We all stood round their stand and watched in horror.

When the queen died, we had 24hr news so not sure what your point is.

No way was the Kings Cross fire "live streamed" in any sense of the term.

The lynching/murder of 2 plain clothes soldiers in a car at an IRA funeral in 1988. Absolutely barbaric

7/7 was strange - I was in london at work and we had no real ides what was going on until someone put a Tv in the downstairs cafe

everyone at work was trying frantically trying to call relatives & friends that were in London to check they were ok

The Bradford-Lincoln game was being filmed as Bradford were champions that season. It may not have been the plan to show the full match live, but footage of the fire was certainly broadcast live.

Yes, for bulletins. Not a rolling live stream.

There was no live coverage of the actual moments of the Aberfan disaster, obviously. But I remember seeing my mother crying as she watched the news in the aftermath. I was a little girl, not entirely registering the scale of the disaster, but I did know I'd never seen my mother weep before.
9/11-- watching the second tower fall down in real time.

The Gaza genocide

Lots of ones mentioned but one thats not been mentioned is Romain Grosjeans formula one crash. I remember screaming and my son about 10 at the time crying his eyes out. I sat their cuddling him thinking his own children and wife would of just watched that live just like my son. The moment they showed you him walking back to the safety car still gives me goosebumps now nevermind the clip of him using the halo to get out the burning car while the marshall put the fire extinguisher in the right position for him to see his way out xx

Without repeating many that have already been posted:

Not live on TV per se, but the image of the 3 year old Syrian refugee boy (Aylan Kurdi) washed up on the beach face down.

Also probably not live, but last year when the household cavalry horses panicked and they showed footage of them cantering through the streets, blood running down their legs. I'm so glad all horses and riders were safe in the end

When she died they interrupt all the channels not just the news. Dh had a video for years of a movie that was interrupted to go to The announcement of the first gulf war. With Kings Cross the fire was in the late evening. I remember seeing them broadcasting from outside the station but not sure if it was the 9 or 10pm news or a special broadcast.

9/11, the second plane. I was in Lakeside shopping with my then boyfriend.
We were walking through John Lewis TV department. People were gathered around watching in disbelief. It was just horrific.

7/7 I didn't see anything as I was on a course all day. I had messages from various people saying they were ok and had no idea what it was about until I put the radio on.

Grenfell, it was on breakfast news live.

Jock Stein collapsing as Scotland played Wales at St Ninians park, he died in the ground first aid room.

Also 9/11, the second plane. Horrendous.

Another one, I was very young maybe about 4. I remember watching Indira Gandhi's funeral and they burnt her on a funeral pyre. I was stuck to my seat with shock, had never seen anything like that before.

I didn’t see it live, but almost. I worked at a Travel Agency and there was no point in all the sales staff staying in the office because our phones had gone dead- suddenly no one had an appetite for booking a holiday, unsurprisingly. The directors stayed in the office to answer calls from our clients who were already on holiday and worrying about getting home. They sent the rest of us home so most of us went to the bar down the road and watched it all unfold on the TV. Terrible day- none of it seemed real.

haha I remember this!

9/11, Grenfell, The Gaza Attacks. But also EuroVision.

They actually didn't "interrupt" anything when the queen died - they all planned an announcement at the same time so all programming was already stopped for that (and that had been in the plans due years of course). But we knew it was coming.

Despite that, the queens death was not "live streamed" so I'm not sure what the point of this side discussion is.

I think of this often. I was a child living not far from it. I still could cry at how savage it was and nobody helped. There were a lot of horrors at the time in northern Ireland but seeing that live on TV was something I will never forget.