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Photos of Plane Crash / Mid-Air Collision
Circulating via email, photographs purportedly taken inside the passenger cabin of Gol Airlines Flight 1907 seconds after the Boeing 737's fatal collision with another aircraft on Sep. 29, 2006.
Note: A new variant of this hoax claims the same photos were taken inside the cabin of Air France Flight 447 just before it went down in the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, 2009.
Description: Emailed images / Hoax
Circulating since: November 2006
Status: False
Subject: Graphic - Not For Casual Viewing
BRAZIL 2006 MIDAIR
Looks like it got cut in half. First picture still has the separated Tail section in view.
Last month a B737 had a mid air collision with a Embraer Legacy while cruising at 35,000 feet over South America. The Embraer Legacy, though seriously damaged, with the winglet ripped off, managed to make a landing at a nearby airstrip in the midst of the Amazon jungle. The crew and passengers of the Embraer Legacy had no idea what they had hit. The B737, however, crashed killing all crew and passengers on board.
The two photos attached above were apparently taken by one of the passengers in the B737, after the collision and before the aircraft crashed. The photos were retrieved from the camera's memory stick. You will never get to see photos like this. In the first photo there is a gaping hole in the fuselage through which you can see the tailplane and vertical fin of the aircraft. In the second photo one of the passengers is being sucked out of the gaping hole.
INCREDIBLE. AMAZING.
Photos taken inside the plane.
These photos were found in a digital Casio Z750, amidst the remains in Serra do Cachimbo. Although the camera was destroyed, the Memory Stick was recovered.
Major Antônio Nelson, from the Brazilian Air Force, is investigating how the photos leaked into the Internet, pois representam graficamente o ápice dessa tragédia, e não deveriam ter sido divulgadas.
Investigating the serial number of the camera the owner could be identified, as Paulo G. Muller, an actor of a theatre for children known in the outskirts of Porto Alegre.
It can be imagined that he was standing during the impact with the Embraer Legacy, and during the turbulence he managed to take these photos,
Seconds after the tail loss the aircraft plunged, so the camera was found near the cockpit.
The structural stress probably ripped the engines away, diminishing the falling speed, protecting the electronic equipment but not, unfortunately, the victims.
Paulo Muller leaves behind two daughters, Bruna and Beatriz, from a previous relationship.
June 2009 Update: A new variant of this hoax appeared shortly after the reported disappearance of Air France Flight 447, an A330-200 Airbus carrying 228 passengers and crew from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, on June 1, 2009.
The earliest variant of the 2009 message was prefaced as follows:
FW: 2 photos after Collision n before Death.... AIR FRANCE
Few Days before the world saw the disappearance of an A330 Air Frane during a trans Atlantic flight between Rio to Paris. Very ironic that a day before I got a mail of the photos taken by a passenger on a flight mins after a mid air collision, and mins before the crash of the said aircraft. . .
A later variant claimed the photos were taken aboard Air France Flight 447 itself.
