Air France pictures; are these a hoax?

by Mark on June 27, 2009

I’m pretty sure these must be a hoax but they’re still pretty good pictures.  They came in a email I received today circulating the internet with the following narrative:

The world saw the disappearance of an A330 Air France during its trans Atlantic flight between Rio to Paris ..
The two photos attached were taken by one of the passengers before the aircraft crashed. This extraordinary photographer kept his cool, even in his last moments of life, to take these photos. The photos were retrieved from the camera’s memory stick. You will never again see photos like this.
In the first photo, there is a gaping hole in the fuselage through which you can see the tailplane and a vertical fin of the aircraft.

In the second photo, one of the passengers is seen being sucked out of the gaping hole.

The photos were found in a digital Casio Z750, amidst the debris. Although the camera was destroyed, the Memory Stick was recovered. Investigating the serial number of the camera, the owner was identified as Paulo G. Muller, an actor of a theatre for children known in the outskirts of Porto Alegre .. It can be imagined that he was standing during the turbulence, he managed to take these photos, just seconds after the tail loss and the aircraft plunged. The structural stress probably ripped the engines away, diminishing the   falling speed, protecting the electronic equipment but unfortunately not the victims. Paulo Muller leaves behind two daughters, Bruna and Beatriz.

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3 Seb Willis June 27, 2009 at 12:32 pm

These are pictures from an episode of Lost. You can read about it here, http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25679077-401,00.html Apparently people knew because of the prescence of one of the ‘Lost’ actors in the photos, plus the fact the images show the crash in daylight, when the Air France plane crashed at night. Would’ve been good if they were real though =/

4 Mark June 27, 2009 at 12:33 pm

Ah, thanks for the input Seb.

5 motoko July 21, 2009 at 5:39 pm

nice bloghapleng

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