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and, the worst movie ever? perhaps. but that has only elevated this monster movie to cult classic status. when a film is so bad it s good is tonight s sign of the times. announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, martin bashir and cynthia mcfadden in new york city, this is nightline, may 12th, 2010. good evening. it was virtually a brand new plane, part of an airline that has not suffered a single accident in the ten years it s been operating. but today, the airbus a 330-200 was unrecognizable. debris strewn across a field. every person on board would perish. everyone, that is, except one child. a miracle child? perhaps. but as investigators piece together what caused the tragedy, that child is not unique in surviving such an horrific accident. this 8-year-old boy may be the latest miracle in the skies. he s the sole survivor of this morning s catastrophic plane crash in libya. his parents and sibling were among those who died. the boy has several breaks in both legs, is under intensive care, but is stable. the flight had taken off from south calfry ka last night. destination, libya, with 103 passengers and cry on board. but on its final approach at 6:00 a.m. this morning, the flight crashed just short of the runway. with the exception of its fail fin, the entire plane was shattered into pieces. the sole survivor is eerily reminiscent of a crash into the indian ocean, which killed all 152 passengers, apart from one 12-year-old girl, foung clinging to debris in the middle of shark-infested waters. there have been 13 sole survivors of plane crashes since 1970, and half of them children. children, as a matter of course are a little bit more duck tile in the abuse their bodies can take, but that really doesn t explain it. reporter: but while these survivor stories may seem miraculous, the statistics or withstanding any air crash are actually very good. 95.6% of the passengers involved in airplane accidents in the united states in the last 30 years survived the crash. 95.6%. so, a terrible tragedy today in libya that adds to this myth, what i call the myth of hopelessness, that airplane crashes are hopeless and that everybody dies. in fact, it s the opposite. most people survive plane crashes around the world. reporter: ben sherwood is the author of the survivors club. a book that is optimistic about surviving disasters. the first three minutes of a flight and the last eight minutes of a flight are when around 8% of the accidents happen. reporter: take offs and lanks, first three minutes and last eight minutes, are the maximum dangerous times. in december 2008, this continental plane crashed while taking off from denver. it was clear that the right side of the plane was on fire. people were literally jumping over seats to get to the exits. reporter: five years ago, this was the aftermath of a failed air france plane attempting to land in toronto. i could see some flames, some fire. i don t know if it was from the engine, but it was from the outside. we really thought we were dying at that point. it was totally orange out the window. we couldn t see where we were going. reporter: guess how many people survived? every single passenger and crew member. so, what can you do to prepare for the unexpected? professor ed galler of the university of green witch in london, has studied 100 of the worst air crashes of all time. he concedes that the elements for disaster are right there in the aircraft. you have a metal tube. you cram it full of people. you pull limited exits in it so it s difficult to get out. you then wrap the whole thing with kerosene, fuel, then hurl it down a runway at 150 miles an hour. that s intrinsically a dangerous environment. reporter: yet, he s observed that there are some key decisions that can make all the difference between life and death. what we found is that the average distance that a survivor will travel in an evacuation is seven seat rows. reporter: get an aisle see if you can. count how many seat backs are you away from the nearest exit in front of you and behind you. why count the seepts? if you are involved in a fire situation with smoke, won t necessarily be able to see where the exit is. reporter: and he has advice of you traveling with your family. you should insist that the airline does not separate you through the aircraft. you should be seated together. why? well, it s only natural that if you are involved in that situation, you want to reunite the group before you evaporate. a statistician at m.i.t. said your chance of dying on your next flight in the united states, domestically is around 1 in 35 million. 1 in 35 million. that means you could travel every day on average for the next 95,000 years and never get involved in a fatal airplane accident. reporter: of course, even when all these strategies are put into practice, it helps to have an experienced pilot who can deal with any eventuality. runway four is available if you want to make a run. i can t wait. what s over to our right? reporter: chesley sullenberger landed his plane on the hudson river. within yards of new york city. there were no fatalities, not evenen in serious injuries. are you okay? yeah! reporter: but statistically, it s less a miracle and more the norm. because aircraft remain the safest form of transport, not withstanding the tragedy earlier today. and the sole survivor of today s crash has been identified tonightal rubin van ashaut from holland. we wish him well in his recovery. coming up, babies doing beyonce, thriller in the prison yard to this latest sixth grade sensation. we celebrate five years of youtube. lçlçlçlçlçlçlçlçlçlçlçlçlçlçlçlç we went around surprising people by swapping their rides with a ford. and we got a little help from their friends and family. we swapped your car for the week. what? it s a ford escape. really? there s the bluetooth, the syncing to the phone. i really like the parallel parking. oh my goodness! it s doing it. i feel like i m cheating on my crv. look at you talkin me into a ford. yeah, i know. you should really try it! swap your ride for an escape and grab 0% financing and $1000 bucks while you re at it. you keep talkin . i ll wait in the car. go to your local ford dealer and swap your ride today. so how come i still feel depressed? 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[ female announcer ] used mops can grow bacteria. swiffer wetjet starts with a clean pad evertime. and its antibacterial cleaner kills bacteria mops can spread around. swiffer gives cleaning a whole new meaning. lovellady it provides countless hours of enjoyment, amazement and of course laughter. with 1 billion people watching videos daily, youtube truly is woven into the fabric of our information throw. a tool from everything of finding your next big star to condemning your partner s adultery. as they celebrate its 5th birthday, john donvan hits stop to see where youtube has been and where it s going. follow you until you love me reporter: there s only one place that this can happen. greyson michael chance punts out pictures of himself performing paparazzi, and one week later, more than 1 million people have seen this. only place this can happen? the nonstop world changing global show and tell that is known as youtube. a world where a mom in canada can also post pictures of another boy singing songs. and he does become a superstar. justin bieber a world where a cell phone camera in iran witnesses a woman being shot dead at a protest and then we would all come to know her name. a world where a politician finds that loose lips can make viral clips. that senator never recovered. power to the people. that s what youtube has made possible. power to be heard, whether for a political rant boycott hollywood! reporter: whether to get a laugh. reporter: whether just to share what seems meaningful to the people in the pictures. pictures worth 1,000 words, and a picture is worth 1,000 times 1,000 times 1,000. a billion. that s how many views a day youtube reached last year and it s only now this month reaching its 5th birthday. five years ago, none of this existed. and neither did any of this. we are in youtube worldwide headquarters in san bruno, california. reporter: it has a place. it exists. it does. reason youtube was housed of a pizza parlor when it launched in may 2005. some of our engineers got excited about having a tiki bar. they named it youtiki and we don t let people check in new code after they ve been drinking. reporter: but google bought it in 2006 for $1.65 billion. these are real plants. eco friendly building. reporter: and now it has this new home and google seasoned management like hunter walk, who is director of product management and there is a lot of product to be managed. hundreds of millions of users worldwide. more than 24 hours of video uploaded every minute. reporter: 24 hours every minute? just in the time we ve been talking we have multiple days of new video on the site. reporter: that is simply astounding. but even more so is how this place works as a business. it s like a restaurant where customers cook the food for others and pay for the ingredients, because owl of this video is our home movies, our stupid stunts. as one of the founders, chad hurley told me youtube makes the tools, but the human race provides the content. did you ever see this coming, that s what people would do with it? not necessarily. we didn t know what was going to happen. we knew we wanted to create a site that we would enjoy and others would enjoy and the fact that people have a chance to do that kind of tells us something. reporter: and with youtube working on new user tools all the time. they re trying to perfect the 3d experience, users have seized the promise of youtube. you can, indeed, broadcast yourself to hundreds of millions of people. the little guy didn t remotely have that chance before. and now? now a high school student in hawaii named ryan heega starts doing comedy and he s got 2.2 million subscribers, much bigger than jon stewart s audience. or a family posts a happy kid on christmas morning. oh my god! reporter: and his exuberance sets off a wave of parody. oh my god! and parodies of parodies. it s the untubers talking to each other in a way that could never hab before. i type in how to make sourdough bread and not only are there dozens of people already posting their methods, some of these folks are doing the full-time julia child thing. there are full-blown shows. you have teachers like sal khan, as part of youtube s partners program, he can run ads. the cost of producing the videos and having it up there is lower than supporting a small rural one-house schoolhouse. it s a small cost that you can literally educate the world. reporter: dolce s sight is about looking good. my favorite video is a fashion video. i did five outfits on what to wear to work. so, just gave a lot of ideas to my viewers. not the basic black suit or, you know, white color t-shirt. just something more fashionable. something to make a statement but still really professional looking. hey, it s fred. reporter: and while teenager lucas is doing a character called fred figglehorn with this voice. down right gangsta. reporter: said to be making $1 million on ads right now my foot is broken. reporter: there is something youtube is doing that is considered priceless. dramatic chipmoneyiunk. something in it connected to 20 million people. the same thing for, oh there s keyboard cat. ow! reporter: and charlie bit me. charlie. that really hurt. reporter: there s the canadian that accused united airlines of breaking his guitar. united breaks guitars. reporter: and united did finally offer compensation. i dreamed a dream of time gone by reporter: and sue bsan boyle video. more than 200 million hits by now. that is a lot of citizens of earth for a change. agreeing on what they like. a lot more people than were in the british audience that night for this american idol -style show, with simon cowell as judge. but consider, who needs simon cowell in the mix at all when a kid like greyson michael chance can succeed without a judge in site on youtube. until that girl is mine reporter: i m john donvan for nightline in san bruno, california. and the star of that young man singing lady gaga has taken off. as of tonight, nearly 4 million viewer and counting. our thanks to john donvan. when we come back, get the popcorn ready. this movie is downright dreadful, and fans just can t get enough. find out why in tonight s sign of the times. hi, i m ellen. here s what can do with 4g from sprint. i m using my 4g mobile broadband card to download the multimedia client presentation my associate dave here was supposed to bring. and while that s happening, dave will attempt to explain to our boss why he left the one thing he was responsible for back at the office. okay, got it. what can you do with 4g? 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reporter: but the doctor does hold a place in film history. he starred in what may be the worst movie ever made. just trying to make a good movie. reporter: and you failed. we failed. michael? yeah? who are the goblins? reporter: failure really doesn t begin to describe it. the goblins? reporter: troll 2 skipped theaters, became a cheesy staple of late night hbo. it was voted worst film ever on imdb.com. rotten tomatoes gave it a 0. the lowest score possible. then, there s the plot. it has absolutely nothing to do with troll 1. there s not a single troll in the movie. instead, it s about a little boy terrorized by vegetarian goblins who want to turn his family into plants and eat them. they re eating my mom! reporter: michael paul stephenson played that little boy. i thought that i was going to be a movie star. i thought this was the next gremlins. this was my big break. we put the vhs in and seven seconds into it, my dad s jaw dropped and said, oh, michael, this is a terrible movie. hi, babe. reporter: audiences, it seems, love movies that are perfectly awful. they line up for coast to coast screenings of the room, an out of focus dub that s developed a cult following. tear me apart, lisa! reporter: even bad movies like plan nine from outer space and show girls have garnered a big following years after they bombed. grandpa! reporter: but is it so terrible it might be good? two decades later, audiences seem to think so. a fanbase has formed. at special screenings, theater goers have been lining up to see troll 2. the biggest reason why troll 2 has become this phenomenon is that it s sincere. it a sincere failure. troll 2 is the best movie in the world. reporter: and, to participate, some fans have made their own goblin costumes. there is a troll-olympic games and movie goers shout at the screen, ratfuling off bad lines of dialogue. you can t you can t piss on hospitality. i won t allow it. reporter: how oscar snubbed this movie, i will never know. row row row your boat reporter: whatever happened to the people behind the movie? michael made a documentary called best worst movie, highlighting the renaissance of troll 2 and reunited the cast. they tried so hard to make a good movie and failed so hard, it has more power than movies that are made adequately but aren t great. i just couldn t take it anymore. i thought, what is reporter: we were at the alamo draft house the other night as a crowd packed in to see the first of many nationwide screenings of best worst movie. a film like this maybe happens once a generation. reporter: the documentary, by the way, has achieved something troll 2 never did. critics love it. and heefrp s something fans will love. a new script for troll 2 part 2 is now in the works. i m jeremy hubbard for nightline in austin, texas. smells like box office gold. our thanks to jeremy hubbard for that. we ll be right back. but first, jimmy kimmel with what s coming up next on abc. jimmy: tonight, landon donovan. the number one song in the country from b.o.b., and dr. phil is here. oprah shaved his mustache.