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International TV/Radio Stations Get Punked By Fake Air France Crash Footage

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miss_msry
06/21/09

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Stupid journalists.
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Guy Whitey Corngood
06/21/09

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I took some screenshots of the freighter sinking from the season 4 Lost finale, fooled a bunch of 4channers into thinking it was Somali pirate footage. And that was fucking MONTHS ago. What do I win?
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skahammer
06/22/09

@Guy Whitey Corngood: Huh, fooling 4channers. Now there's an activity guaranteed to make one question his life choices.
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ronniedobbs
06/21/09

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All I want is to read that everyone died instantly without suffering any pain, yet these stories are not forthcoming with those kinds of assuring details. I need to know that for the victims' sake of course, but also so I can add it to the pep-talk I give myself every time I fly.
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minou
06/21/09

@ronniedobbs: I can't remember the source -- I think it's around here somewhere -- but someone (an authority) noted that when a plane loses pressure, the passengers will pass out in well under a minute. During that time, some blessed bodily chemical reaction kicks in and all it feels like is falling asleep. I've been telling myself this for years, and I'm glad that it turns out to be true.

Those oxygen masks that drop from the ceiling are only there to make you feel safer. In reality you'd be "asleep" before you could get to it to put it on. So there's a good chance that the passengers on this flight felt a big bump -- like turbulence, and that was that. It's a little bit of comfort anyway.
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kneetoe
06/21/09

@minou: Oh, ok, here's that source, um, it looks like something from the Association of Travel Agents, in conjunction with the Airlines Are Safe Confederation. Yes, and what it says is that this breaking up thing never happens, but on the really rare occasion when it does, it's just like going to sleep.

God, I knew I read it somewhere.
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Weegee's bored
06/21/09

@minou: I think that suddenly being exposed to the equivalent of 500-mph winds probably makes the end pretty quick.
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badasscat
06/21/09

@minou: No, the oxygen masks are not only there to make you feel safer. There have been many cases where they have actually been used in pressurization incidents. Sheesh.
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minou
06/21/09

@badasscat: I'm sure you're right in less extreme cases. I misspoke in that I meant in this case -- a plane breaking up -- it's unlikely that you're gonna put the thing on, be conscious for the whole time, and live through the hell of the plane going down. It is my understanding that in these rare cases, it all happens too fast for the oxygen mask to make much difference, and that's for the best. But I am sure glad that you found the opportunity to gratuitously correct me. Sheesh.
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minou
06/21/09

@kneetoe: I think I read on this site that it was an Air France official or the like who cited that? Although I'm not sure the source matters, since I'll take those little comforts anywhere I can get them.
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minou
06/21/09

@Weegee's bored: One hopes.
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DrJimmy
06/21/09

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There's a handful of Bolivian and Dutch broadcasters who've just graded out as utter and complete Assholes.

Somebody tell 'em I said so.

So, Kamer: how does your complimenting these idiots in any way separate you from attached Assholery?
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Foster Kamer
06/21/09

@DrJimmy: It doesn't?
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