S01E01 Episode 1
Chesapeake Bay 9/30/81 – A US Navy Douglas A-4 Skyhawk crashes during a bomb test. Portland, OR – Two men attempt to save their lives, by outrunning a large mudslide. Nicaragua 11/4/02 - Eric Barone...
Destroyed In Seconds
S01E31: Episode 31
Riobamba, Ecuador – on election night reporter Juan is covering voting, then an ammunition depot explodes. It causes bombs and rockets to detonate and a huge mushroom cloud forms. People run for it and explosions continue. The city is evacuated for days as the Army collects bombs. Fairbanks, Alaska – World Ice Art Championships contest. The Birth of the Bluebird is worked on for 100 hours and Uniqui cuts the last pillar and the whole thing breaks. Ursa, IL 12/8/89 – Stan Frasier tries to remove two 60-foot grain silos from his yard with a bulldozer and one falls on him. One has a tree with bird’s nest. First he tries to pull it down with a chain and it breaks, the second time the silo just drops 4 feet. The cage and roof saves him. Anchorage, Alaska – Mulchay stadium Fairbanks Bucks baseball game. A Cessna 207 skywagon loses power and crashes behind the outfield wall, hits a fence and flips over. The engine rips out and catches fire. 4 people were on board and all lived. They forgot to check gas on one side. Irwindale Speedway, CA – at a stock car race on lap 40 car #4 hits #34, then slides into an edge barrier and flips over. Todd Burns & Kevin Wood are inside. Wood is trapped upside down, but walks away Kernersville, NC 1/14/09 – Cops go to a house fire where a 911 call says people are inside. Firemen are told it’s empty and go in to check when the whole house blows up and is lifted off the base. Only the fireman had minor injuries. Blacktown, Australia 1994 – Eastern Creek Raceway drag racing. Santos Cranos back tires blow up and he flips over. Alicante, Spain – an armed 25-year-old takes over a bank with 8 hostages. He releases 6 for a motorcycle, rides off to escape and cops cut him off with a car and send him flying. Cops grab him and an ambulance takes him away. Spa, Belgium – Formula Palmer Series racing. Tim Mullen gets clipped in the back, spins out, crashes into a wall and catches fire. He’s trapped and has to be pulled out.
Overview
Destroyed in Seconds is a half-hour American television series that airs on Discovery Channel. Hosted by Ron Pitts, it features video segments of various things being destroyed fairly quickly such as planes crashing, explosions, sinkholes, boats crashing, fires, race car incidents, floods, etc. The nature of the show closely resembles Real TV. The show uses real video of real events, and commentary explaining the destruction portrayed. Most videos have stock sound effects added. Some of the events seen resulted in fatalities, and all of the events have property damage. It is currently on hiatus.
Episodes
S01E02 Episode 2
Bakersfield, CA – A Speedboat hits the shore, flies over a hill, and onto a road. Luckily, the driver escapes just before the boat hits land. Puget Sound, WA – Footage of the Tacoma Narrows...
S01E03 Picnic Surprise, Chemical Inferno
Oxnard, CA 2/14/05 – An Amtrak Pacific Surfliner train hits an 18-Wheeler because of a faulty traffic signal. Iksan, South Korea – A fire starts at a propane filling station. Mountain Home, ID 9/14/03 –...
S01E04 Episode 4
Taiwan 7/8/95 – A styrene tanker truck explodes. Cape Canaveral, FL 1/17/97– A Delta II 7925 explodes because of a 19-foot long crack. Thailand – A 40" mock cigarette made from hydrogen-filled balloons at a...
S01E05 Episode 5
Dallas, TX – An Acetylene factory fire launches tanks onto the road Prince George, British Columbia – At the Sandburst Games downhill race a couch crashes with 3 people. The crash ends the Sandburst Games....
S01E06 Episode 6
Cranesville, NY 4/27/02 – The fire department trains to set an old house on fire. It explodes, because the fuel was soaked into the wood. Weatherford, TX 10/8/05 – A Police chase ends in a...
S01E07 Episode 7
UK 7/24/93 – At an airshow a pair of MIG-29s collide at the Royal International Air Tattoo Chandler, AZ 2/24/85 – A speedboat crashes into a shore and flies onto powerlines Manchester, England 6/15/96 –...
S01E08 Episode 8
Ethiopia 1991 – terrorists blow up an ammo depot killing over 100 with several explosions Hagerstown, MD – during a race Gary Stewart is bumped into a corner guard rail and badly wrecked Paris, France...
S01E09 Episode 9
109 Fairfield, UT – a British helicopter does a loop at an airshow and crashes Swedish Air Force 2/2/89 Saab JAS 39 Gripen test flight crashes on landing and rolls Stockholm 4 years later 8/8/93...
S01E10 Episode 10
110 Kolding, Denmark 11/3/04 – Seest fireworks disaster International Hot Boat Race – Super Dave crashes Norway – Hans Lange jumps from a cliff in a wing suit and gets stuck 20 feet up in...
S01E11 Episode 11
111 San Diego, CA 5/17/95 – Shawn Nelson's road rampage with a 57-tonne M60 Patton tank. Gerdez, Albania – 90,000 tons of ammunition explode causing chaos Melbourne, Australia – at a drag race Keith Agis...
S01E12 Episode 12
112 Sewan River, FL – Hank Hogan wipes out his speedboat at 140 mph and is thrown across the water Russia 10/5/91 – a Soviet Yakovlev Yak-141 fighter prototype plane explodes when landing on a...
S01E13 Episode 13
113 Santiago, Chile – industrial plastics factory fire spews shrapnel Ridger Mountain Range, MT – Nick & Mike film their skiing and start an avalanche that buries them Isle of Man – TT Milky Quayle...
S01E14 Episode 14
114 Melbourne, Australia – Calder park – O'Brien's stock car crashes and flips 14 times British Columbia, Canada – Big Dawg Shootout snowmobile hill climb Tim McGregor's crash Oleiros, Spain – Virgin Mary Festival launches...
S01E15 Episode 15
Chicago, IL – a 110-car freight train smashes into an 18 wheeler Del Mar, CA 7/4/01 – Bubba Blackwell motorcycle jump ends badly Bakersfield, CA – Bill Burch 1941 drag race crash Paris, TX –...
S01E16 Episode 16
Mexico – Baja 500 run – saboteurs makes a hole in the course and a white truck hits it and is launched and flips Denver, CO – window-washing platform smashes into a building, breaks and...
S01E17 Episode 17
Las Vegas, NV – at Pro Flame, a propane plant truck unloading starts a fire, then the fire spreads to the neighboring Amerigas plant. Explosions send fire 150 feet in the air. The fires burn...
S01E18 Episode 18
Texarkana, AR 10/15/05 – a freight train derails and police go to the scene. The cop smells chemicals and backs up. Then an explosion occurs and soon night turns into day ahead of him as...
S01E19 Episode 19
Mulhouse-Habsheim Airport, Mulhouse, France 6/26/1988 – Air France Flight 296 is an Airbus A320-111 low-speed flyover demonstration flight with 130 passengers and 6 crew members on board. It loses lift above the runway, goes into...
S01E20 Episode 20
Fort Worth, TX – chemical storage facility fire. Huge drums explode and launch hundreds of feet. Smoke can be seen for 30 miles. EPA says to let it go and it burns for 4 ½...
S01E21 Episode 21
Fuji Speedway, Japan – Le mans race in the pouring rain. The pace car goes too fast, causes Senako to spin out, crash hard, then Tetsuyo Otta plows into him and explodes. The car drives...
S01E22 Episode 22
Toronto, Canada 8/10/08 – Sunrise Industrial Gases factory catches fire and explodes into massive fireballs. A shockwave can be felt for 10 miles. Fiery metal is launched, I401 is shut down, people are evacuated. 5000...
S01E23 Episode 23
Mission Bay San Diego, CA – Mark W races a hydro fuel dragboat in a test. He flips it and it rips apart in 2 seconds. He opens the capsule and it takes on water,...
S01E24 Episode 24
Tacoma, WA 10/6/07 – a propane truck unloads into a storage tank. It starts to leak and smoke covers the area. Then the truck catches fire spewing up to the freeway. 8000 gallons explode destroying...
S01E25 Episode 25
Netherlands – a fireworks warehouse catches fire and people fill the streets to watch. Then the fireworks erupt and people start running for it. The whole thing detonates, breaks glass and smashes nearby buildings. A...
S01E26 Episode 26
Russian Cosmodrome 2002 – Soyez rocket with Photo satellite nighttime launch. 29 seconds later it falls to earth in a massive explosion. Something got into an intake pipe and all engines shut down. It was...
S01E27 Episode 27
Buenos Aires, Argentina – an 18-wheeler on an overpass loses control after going too fast. It hits the wall and the entire cargo of lemons falls to the street below sending people running. Bluemenau, Brazil...
S01E28 Episode 28
Edison, NJ – an asphalt plant gasline catches fire next to the Durham Woods apartments. They are told to evacuate, then the line explodes. John records it and tries to escape. A backhoe damaged it...
S01E29 Episode 29
Des Moines, IA – Barton Solvents catches fire. Thick black smoke fills the sky, then huge explosions erupt again and again from 55 gallon drums launching them through the air and keeping firemen back. The...
S01E30 Episode 30
Wichita, KS 7/02 – Summer Nationals International raceway drag racing at night. Jerry Yeoman makes it to the finals, hits an oil slick and slams into a wall, goes over it and flips 18 times...
S01E31 Episode 31
Riobamba, Ecuador – on election night reporter Juan is covering voting, then an ammunition depot explodes. It causes bombs and rockets to detonate and a huge mushroom cloud forms. People run for it and explosions...
S01E32 Episode 32
Bonnveille Salt Flats, UT – Jim Meader wants to be the production car speed record of 241 mph. He gets his Mazda RX7 up to 230 mph, adds power and goes in the air, spins...
S01E33 Episode 33
Queensland, Australia – Willowbrook Raceway New Year’s drag racing night fire series. Stephen Reed's car wobbles and explodes. He pulls the extinguisher, hits the wall and his body flies 30 feet up in the air....
Cast
Ron Pitts
Host
