Video footage of a plane diving through the sky, doing a 360-degree roll
before righting itself, is not the work of a talented pilot saving his
plane from typhoon winds in China, as some online sites are suggesting.
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The
clip, which purports to be Aeroplane Dragon Air B-737 hit by a typhoon
in Shenzhen, China, is actually half computer-generated video of a plane
spinning through the air with footage from an emergency landing of a
Capital Airlines flight at an airport in Shenzhen City in August.
Aristomenis
Tsirbas, director at Menithings Productions, told The Associated Press
that he created the first portion of the video using CGI.
“Yes,
the part of the video that shows an airliner spinning 360 degrees is
stolen copyrighted work - specifically my work,” he said in an email.
Stories
online are using the video to suggest that strong winds from a recent
typhoon caused the plane to spin midair before it was saved by the
pilot’s actions. One story online said that the plane was a Dragon Air
B-737 airplane when the video footage in fact shows that it is a Capital
Air aircraft.
The second half of the video matches video frames
taken of passengers deplaning from a Capital Airlines flight during an
August emergency landing.
The video was shared on Facebook more
than 50,000 times. The video is one of several viral images circulating
following Typhoon Mangkhut.
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