Photos supposedly of the recent A330 Air France Plane Crash

Many of us have seen these pictures supposedly of the recent A330 Air France Plane crash incident of 1-Jun-2009. The big question is are they real?

These photos were claimed to have been found in a digital Casio Z750, amidst the remains in Serra do Cachimbo. Although the camera was destroyed, the Memory Stick was recovered.

Just think about it. Not many things were found from the debris of the fatal crash. So it is highly unlikely that these are actual pictures taken during that crash.

The same pictures were also circulated during the Gol Airlines Flight 1907 after mid-air collision in 2006.

It is now accepted that these pictures are hoax and not from any real plane crash. Instead these are sequences from a TV series named 'Lost'. Read the details at About.com. The same is reproduced here ...

Analysis of the Hoax:

The images above are video captures from the pilot episodes of the ABC television series Lost (note the handcuffs worn by the woman pictured on the left, a character recognizable to viewers of the series as Kate Austen, played by actress Evangeline Lilly). Similar images can be seen in video trailers for the series.

The Brazilian airliner accident referenced in the email actually happened. Gol Airlines Flight 1907 from Manaus to Brasilia went down in the Amazon jungle after the Boeing 737-800 collided with a smaller private jet on September 29, 2006. None of the 154 passengers and crew survived the estimated 300 mph impact when the aircraft struck the ground. At that speed it's unlikely that a digital camera loosed in the passenger cabin would have fared any better than its owner.

No one named Paulo Muller was reported among the victims of the crash. This person was supposedly the owner of the camera that took these pictures.

Source: About.com