[via Gawker]
TV and radio station think Lost plane scene is from Air France
You can complain about CNN or Fox News or MSNBC, but I don't know if they've ever been tricked to this extent (mentions of Howard Stern don't count). A Bolivian TV station and a Dutch radio station both reported that photos were found (somehow) from the last moments of Air France 447 as it broke up over the ocean. Actually, the photos are from a popular TV show titled Lost which runs on ABC. Ahem.
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6-22-2009 @ 4:01PM
Man said...
The other side of the Twitter/Facebook rumor mill.
When checking sources looking at the same pictures from different users is not proper journalism.
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6-22-2009 @ 5:51PM
izikavazo said...
That is completely insane. Imagine the Lost fans who saw that. They probably would have recognized it immediately.
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6-22-2009 @ 6:23PM
StillBash said...
Funny enough this has been a blogger's hoax in 2005 about a planecrash in Brazil.
So it took the whole thing 4 years to resurface. Reset the clocks - we'll be seeing this one again in a couple of years for sure and then the show won't be on the air anymore...
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6-23-2009 @ 1:41PM
Eludium-Q36 said...
Eh, given no one's interpreted the foreign language, I'd like to think the reporter was commenting on what it must've been like to have a plane break apart in mid-air. Seriously, everyone knows the incident happened at night but it's clearly daylight in the video. I call shenanigans.
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6-24-2009 @ 2:08AM
Irfan said...
How can the TV/Radio channels can broadcast such kind of video? before broadcasting didnt they do some research on it? If u see both the pic carefully it shows daylight and clouds in the background and in the second picture broken tail is seen clearly with logo of that airline and not airfrance and according to the news Air France meet with an accident at midnight after 01:33 AM and I hope there won't be any daylight or clouds at that time.
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