A video apparently showing a commercial airliner caught in a typhoon in “Shen Zhen” is circulating online. In the video, the commercial airliner is seen somersaulting at very low altitude.
Captions attached to the video claim the pilot managed to land safely regardless of the typhoon. The second half of the video apparently shows people evacuating from the same plane after landing.
An example of the video can be seen below –
DragonAir B-737 hit by typhoon in Shen Zhen. But managed to land safely
For those suspecting that something isn’t quite right, then you are correct, since the first half of the video showing the plane perform seemingly impossible low altitude manoeuvres appears to have been digitally created, and is a completely different plane to the one shown in the second half of the video when people are evacuating.
The first “stunt performing” plane
A closer examination of the footage reveals that the plane caught in a typhoon actually comes from a June 14th 2017 video from the MeniThings YouTube channel (Video here.) MeniThings is a production company that, among other things, produces visual effects. Their website reads –
MeniThings is a full featured production company that supports the original animated and live action work of director Aristomenis Tsirbas, which includes feature film, TV spots, music videos, and visual effects.
Their YouTube channel is full of CGI plane stunts, videos of UFOs and even several interviews with aliens. As such, the video of the plane caught in a typhoon is clearly a CGI created video, and doesn’t depict a real plane.
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The second plane being evacuated…
The second half of the video shows a plane being evacuated, with the implication being it was the first plane that had subsequently managed to land safely.
However this plane in the second half of the video showing people evacuating the plane comes from an August 28th 2018 incident when a plane from Beijing to Macau had to divert to Shenzhen airport amid engine and landing gear problems, not anything related to a typhoon. The below photo shows a side-by-side view of the plane in flight and the plane being evacuated on the ground.
The two planes are clearly different from each other, and neither is a DragonAir 737.
As you can clearly see, the planes are different with different logos on the tail. Despite the claims attached to the video that the plane was a DragonAir Boeing 737, the CGI plane in the air was an Air Canada Jetz Boeing 737 (that’s more clearly visible via the original video) and the plane being evacuated was a Capital Airlines Airbus 320.
A plane performing unbelievable stunts in this manner after being caught in a typhoon only to somehow miraculously land safely (and all caught on video no less) is something that would inevitably attract significant mainstream media attention. Alas there has been none, since the video is fake.
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