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From the Editor: Photos a hoax
A note from the editor: The photos show last friday on our editor's letter attribute first to the fatal Air France flight and later to a Brazilian Gol accident, turned out were from from the television drama "Lost," according to a news story from AFP
'Lost' photos air in Bolivia as doomed Air France flight
06/22/2009 19:45
LA PAZ, June 22, 2009 (AFP) -
A Bolivian television station aired photographs from the television drama "Lost," presenting them as images of an Air France airliner that went down in the Atlantic, the station's news director said Monday."On Thursday, two photographs were aired on our prime time news report and on Friday we apologized," said Eddy Luis Franco, the news director for the privately-owned PAT television station.
The photographs showed the interior of an aircraft.
In the first one, passengers are seen using oxygen masks to counter the effects of loss of cabin pressure, and in the second a passenger is shown being sucked out of the rear of the aircraft as its tail breaks off.
"These two photos were apparently taken by one of the passengers on the airliner the instant before the collision and after the aircraft crashed," the news presenter said in airing the images.
She said the photographs were recovered from the memory of a digital camera that belong to passenger "Paulo Muller," a Brazilian actor.
Franco said the photographs came to the station via the Internet.
"Lost," a series produced by ABC Studios and Bad Robot Productions, tells the story of survivors of an air crash in a mysterious island in the Pacific.
See Editor's letters :
Photos are not from the Air France plane, but another plane accident in Brazil
Photos taken from the crashed Air France aircraft
Petroleumworld 06/23/09
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