Video Of A Southwest Plane Being Hit By A Drone... NOT!

Video Of A Southwest Plane Being Hit By A Drone… NOT!

Published: June 23, 2015

OMG THE WORLD IS COMING TO AN END!!!

Or so some people seem to think. About a dozen people have emailed/texted/messaged me in the past couple of hours, after someone posted a video on LiveLeak of their Southwest 737 supposedly being hit by a drone:

The text with the video reads as follows:

A drone just hit my plane this morning

Some idiot’s drone crossed our take-off path.

I’m still alive!

Understandably a lot of people are already asking what the government will do to prevent this in the future. There’s only one problem… the video isn’t real.

See the wingtip of the plane? If it were a Southwest plane, it would say “SOUTHWEST.COM” on the very end of it.

Instead you’ll see that the wingtip says “BRANIT.COM,” which is the website of someone who does visual effects.

So an excellent fake, though I’m happy to say that this didn’t happen.

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Mike B Guest

June 24, 2015, 10:07 pm

Why are people so stupid as to not immediately see it is fake and to not even consider that if this was real it would have been all over the news with the current 'drone' hysteria. an FAA administrator testified before congress last week that not a single aircraft has had to take evasive maneuvers regarding a 'drone'. So those dozen+ people to forward the video are pretty dumb.

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Ken Guest

June 24, 2015, 2:08 pm

@Jose - Do you really think the government's banning of something will make it magically disappear? The government could save us all if only they banned drugs and crime! Oh, wait...

Dimples Guest

June 23, 2015, 9:56 pm

@Jose Terrorists can (and have) loaded vehicles with explosives and detonated them in public areas too. Does this mean the government should ban all cars?

DAVID JONES Guest

June 23, 2015, 7:21 pm

This Shows how the fake was done.........https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS3nb4bwHKQ

Jose Guest

June 23, 2015, 6:56 pm

Even though the video is fake but I must say the government is extremely stupid to let the public use it, all the drones should be banned for personal or business use, do you not think terrorists can use this? How easy to use one small drone to carry explosive device or use more drones will have much bigger damage. I have seen people playing it in the public and some of them are very fast and powerful.

Video Of A Southwest Plane Being Hit By A Drone… NOT!

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