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Bolivian TV's Flight 447 Photos Actually From Lost

News program apologizes after gaffe

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(Newser) – In what was either a bizarre prank or heinous gaffe, a Bolivian TV station broadcast two photographs last week from the ABC series Lost as exclusive photos from the final moments of Air France Flight 447, the Telegraph reports. The first shows passengers in an aircraft cabin using oxygen masks, while the other shows passengers being sucked out of a break in the fuselage.

“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 host of a prime-time news show on Bolivia’s PAT TV claimed. The station has since apologized for the error.

This 2006 file photo, provided by ABC, shows the primary cast of the network's dramatic series
This 2006 file photo, provided by ABC, shows the primary cast of the network's dramatic series "Lost."   (AP Photo/ABC, Bob D'Amico, file)
A Bolivian TV station passed off photos from ABC's
A Bolivian TV station passed off photos from ABC's "Lost" as being from doomed Air France Flight 447.   (AP Photo)
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2-bits
Jun 23, 09 2:28 PM CDT
What a contrived scenario. A passenger took photos while the plane was crashing? Classy. Reply
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Jun 23, 09 2:45 PM CDT
this is so stupid its funny Reply
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Newser001
Jun 23, 09 2:47 PM CDT
Latin News (print, TV) is notorious for creating such sensational crap. You have to take everything they push with a grain of salt. Reply
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Jun 23, 09 3:14 PM CDT
I seem to remember them fabricating a "farewell" supposedly written by Gabriel Gracia Marquez.
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