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3 January 2022 - 7:08pm

Plane crash video. Real or fake?

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So, as long-time members of the site will know, I'm a student pilot. Today my flight instructor asked me if I've seen the video of the dude bailing out of an airplane and asked my thoughts. I said no, and proceeded to find the video below:

I immediately think this video is staged. Why? YouTube clout, insurance fraud, or something else? Seems really fishy for a ton of reasons. The selfie stick, the long time to pull the chute, missing video from the GoPros, no distress call in the plane, no looking for a suitable landing site, no trying to re-fire the engines... it's all sketchy.

What do you think?

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4 January 2022 - 12:41am
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Well I don't think it is fake - as in it did happen. But it looks like a totally staged, attention grabbing, youtube stunt to me. What an idiot.

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4 January 2022 - 1:02pm
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CL-Ed wrote:

Well I don't think it is fake - as in it did happen. But it looks like a totally staged, attention grabbing, youtube stunt to me. What an idiot.

I'm honestly surprised that didn't start a wildfire. California is in drought in a lot of those areas. He must have really starved that plane of fuel.

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24 April 2022 - 11:53am
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I agree, it seems fishy, like really weird, as you say he didnt even try starting the engine again or call mayday or anything, could be a good insurance fraud. He absolutely made sure this was filmed though ^^

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25 April 2022 - 3:43am
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I'd agree with Ed about the attention grabbing you tube stunt and for a lot of the reasons listed by you slim. I never thought of most of them, but for him to take so long to open his chute I was thinking that he didnt want the plane catching up to him on his way down, and he was just trying to get a good distance away before pulling his chute open.
Now looking at the reasons you listed, I think it was staged.
Cool video staged or not in my opinion

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25 April 2022 - 10:41am
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Even looking at the plane itself, it looks like it has been bought just to ditch mid air for this video.

The pilot ran the plane out of fuel to ditch mid air, If there was fuel there would've been a big boom on impact and the camera's attached would've caught it before turning into dust. But still have captured footage... No fuel.

Nice way to spend subscribers contributions, buy a plane, jump and ditch it. Get it on camera for monitorization.

However a very good guide on what to do in that situation...

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25 April 2022 - 1:24pm
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That dude was found by the FAA to have intentionally crashed the plane (duh) and has had his license to fly revoked. Whether or not he faces prosecution is another story. He definitely should.

Here's the story.

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25 April 2022 - 3:10pm
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I cannot believe he didnt boil the water....dumb dumb. Hes going to regret that later lol

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25 April 2022 - 8:06pm
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Thanks slim I knew it was deliberate!

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30 April 2022 - 9:44pm
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Most likely not a real catastrophe, it's all too artificial.

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30 January 2023 - 12:30pm
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I agree.
I think is fake.

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16 March 2023 - 10:20am
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I think is fake too.

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22 March 2023 - 5:31pm
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I still haven't heard if he's going to be prosecuted. It's clear that he should be.

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15 April 2023 - 9:55pm
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I completely agree with you Slim! i think he is now, i thought i read something about that the other day

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