Insane Videos

Firefighters sprang into action, trying to pull survivors from a charred cockpit after Sunday's deadly Amazon cargo plane disaster in Miami ... and new video shows the dramatic rescue attempt.

In the video ... you can see several firefighters standing around a ladder extending from the tarmac to the plane's cockpit window.

Another firefighter is perched on the top of the ladder, trying to remove people from inside the plane through the open window.

11:14 AM PT -- A spokesperson for American Airlines tells TMZ ... "On Sept. 3, ​American ​Airlines ​flight 618 diverted to Baltimore ​(BWI) ​due to a disruptive customer. Upon arrival, law ​enforcement ​met the ​aircraft and ​assisted with ​deplaning ​the ​customer before ​the ​flight continued ​to ​its ​destination. The ​safety and ​security of our customers ​and ​team members is our ​top ​priority ​and ​we do ​not tolerate violence. ​We ​thank ​our team members ​for ​their ​professionalism and ​our customers for ​their ​understanding."

A passenger went totally berserk on an American Airlines flight Thursday night -- screaming racial and anti-gay slurs -- and ended up getting duct-taped to his seat to restrain his behavior ... TMZ has learned.

TMZ obtained video and photos of the wild incident, which took place on an AA flight from Dallas Fort Worth International Airport to Newark Liberty International Airport. However, the plane got diverted to Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.

The photos show the man looking like a mummy wrapped up in duct tape while secured to his seat. Even his head is duct-taped along with his hands. The video captures the crew and passengers restraining the man in his seat as he apparently tries to put up a fight.

Garth Brooks put on a secret concert in Colorado … where over 2,000 fans showed up … but it ended with over 25 people needing medical attention, TMZ has learned.

Wild videos from the event at The Grizzly Rose in Denver show the crowd struggling to deal with the over 90-degree heat, with some people having to be carried out of the event.

A spokesperson for the Adams County Fire Rescue said they helped around 25-30 people for heat-related illnesses. Officials were already on site for the event handing out waters to the crowd. The rep confirmed three people were transported to the hospital for heat exhaustion.

Shangri-La may be a state of mind ... but that paradisal mindset was wrecked when people at a monument named after the famous city had to run for their lives from a massive rockslide!

You have to see the video taken at the Shangri-La Tiger Leaping Gorge scenic area in the Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of China's Yunnan Province from earlier this week ... which shows huge rocks tumbling down the mountain -- while people just taking in the view sprinted from the potentially deadly debris.

The rocks slip into the rushing river below ... and, thankfully, reports indicate no one was injured during the sudden slide.

Most people don't survive getting struck by lightning ... but don't tell that New Yorker Thomas Fahmy, who managed to cheat death on video!

NBC News reports that Fahmy -- who works for Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis -- was walking along the street on Staten Island during a storm Thursday night when he was hit by lightning.

Surveillance footage caught the scary moment on video, and NBC obtained the insane clip, showing Fahmy falling to the ground after being struck by a red flash of light. Fahmy miraculously got right back up and walked to a house nearby to ask for help. 

This one's definitely a tense watch ... a woman tries to ward off a raccoon's attacks as she helps 2 babies out of her home.

The stressful footage is from TLC's "ER: Caught on Camera," which dives into the stories behind real-life medical emergencies through videos submitted by the patients themselves.

And you can see in the clip -- she's trying to coax the baby raccoons up the curtain, onto the windowsill, and outside ... all while warding off hisses and bites from what looks to be an adult raccoon.

A woman and two children escaped Nepal's deadly flash floods by mere seconds ... with heart-stopping video showing a wall of muddy debris roaring right behind them.

The footage, shot Wednesday in a settlement along the upper Trishuli River, shows the trio scrambling off a road and up a steep slope as the disaster unfolds.

The woman and kids -- who appear to be wearing school uniforms -- stumble and hit the ground during the frantic escape ... but quickly get back on their feet.

Chilling video from inside a passenger ferry shows travelers scrambling for life jackets ... just moments before the vessel capsized and sank off the coast of Cyprus.

The footage shows panic spreading as passengers hurriedly pull on life vests and prepare to abandon ship ... shortly after the ferry began taking on water Sunday.

The vessel was carrying 267 people -- 259 passengers and eight crew members -- from Kyrenia in northern Cyprus to Taşucu, Turkey, when it ran into trouble just a few miles offshore.

Donald Trump is turning up the heat on Iran -- at least online -- posting a wild A.I.-generated video appearing to show one of the country's most important oil hubs getting absolutely obliterated.

Trump posted the clip Monday .... showing massive explosions ripping across Kharg Island, writing that the island was being "blown to smithereens."

Problem is ... there's no evidence that actually happened.

Great balls of fire ... a 61-year-old man tried to fend off cops serving an eviction notice by attacking them with an improvised flamethrower ... and the fireball is on video!!!

Body cam footage shows the moment cops bust into Darron Dunn's Oklahoma apartment, and he greets them with a flaming ball of fire.

According to the incident report, obtained by TMZ, the Oklahoma County Sheriff says Dunn pointed and sprayed an aerosol can at deputies and ignited the chemicals with a lighter ... and boom! Homemade flamethrower.

A gargantuan wall of water enveloped a heavily trafficked area of Nepal ... killing at least 31 people ... as hundreds of others are missing in villages, and there are now fears the death toll could skyrocket.

Video of the devastation wrought on the Nepal-China border is simply eye-popping. As you can see, people are running for their lives as a tidal wave comes crashing down on them.

The tsunami-like wave was triggered by an earthquake that caused a large landslide to block a river. As a result, villages were overcome by all the water, resulting in 31 deaths, with many more casualties expected.

A man wearing a "Chucky" doll-style mask is terrorizing Philadelphia -- and police are trying to track him down and arrest him before he kills someone!

The terrifying suspect, donning the "Chucky"-like film character mask, has been harassing citizens in the city of Brotherly Love -- and even allegedly asked one woman, "Are you ready to die?"

Philadelphia Police Capt. Jason Smith said the frightening individual targeted a bunch of people in Philly's Center City, accosting them Wednesday during a 20-minute scare fest.

Things got a little weird at The Happiest Place on Earth when an employee randomly ditched their shirt ... and jumped right into the Rivers of America ... and the clip's gone viral.

A parkgoer caught most of it on camera -- posting a clip of the employee swimming in the water ... before hauling himself out.

Disneyland officials tell TMZ ... the employee was not hurt ... and they are investigating the matter. It's unclear if the guy is still employed. Disney did not share his explanation for jumping into the water.

A Missouri man jumped ship during a police chase ... exiting his moving car and diving off a bridge into the lake below ... and it's all on video.

Gavin Thor Lundgren -- a 26-year-old man from Kimberling City -- was arrested Saturday after police say he refused to comply with a routine traffic stop and led them on a wild pursuit that saw him dart across a two-lane bridge and dive into Table Rock Lake.

Dashcam footage shows the driver getting out of his car and swan-diving.

The massive earthquake that rocked Mexico and Guatemala was so powerful it started landslides ... and videos show some of the scary aftermath.

One clip making the rounds on social media shows a truck driving down a hill as a wave of dirt, rocks, dust and debris swallow up the road.

It's a close call ... and the truck narrowly avoids getting swallowed up.

Another video captures a chandelier as it sways from the ceiling in someone's home. The person filming watches in amazement as the dangling lamp shakes and shakes and shakes.

An obnoxious Blue Angels flyover at a Florida beach resulted in a dangerous mess for onlookers ... and video from the moment is insane.

The incident happened Wednesday morning during "Breakfast with the Blues" at Pensacola Beach ... and it scared the hell out of beachgoers as tents, chairs, and umbrellas went flying from the force of the jet engines when the area was buzzed.

Reactions to the moment were split ... some witnesses said it was awesome -- others on social media pointed out the situation was really dangerous with all this stuff flung around the busy area.

It seems the Navy also thinks the flyover was questionable ... and is reportedly investigating.