# WTC "Approaching Jet" Photo: Real or Fake? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 27, 2001, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-approaching-jet-photo-real-or-fake/84205 "2001-09-27T22:55:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JohnW77707](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@JohnW77707](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnW77707)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-approaching-jet-photo-real-or-fake/84205/1 "2001-09-27T22:55:10Z")
I have now seen on two seperate internet sites a photo purporting to be “from a camera of a tourist” who hasn’t been found. It shows a plane heading towards WTC (very near) in the background. My first reaction was “urban legend – easy to fake”. Any informed opinions? ---
**Author:** ![sethdallob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@sethdallob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sethdallob)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-approaching-jet-photo-real-or-fake/84205/2 "2001-09-27T22:56:16Z")
Got a link? It would be nice to know we’re talking about the same photo… ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-approaching-jet-photo-real-or-fake/84205/3 "2001-09-27T22:57:10Z")
[Fake.](http://www.snopes2.com/rumors/crash.htm) ---
**Author:** ![KeithB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/48db29/32.png) [@KeithB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KeithB)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-approaching-jet-photo-real-or-fake/84205/4 "2001-09-27T22:58:01Z")
[http://www.snopes2.com/rumors/crash.htm](http://www.snopes2.com/rumors/crash.htm) ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-approaching-jet-photo-real-or-fake/84205/5 "2001-09-27T22:58:08Z")
Snopes says “[false](http://www.snopes.com/rumors/crash.htm)”. Someone showed me that photo this morning, and I was upset enough to look it up at [http://www.snopes.com](http://www.snopes.com). ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-approaching-jet-photo-real-or-fake/84205/6 "2001-09-27T22:58:55Z")
[Snopes is your friend](http://www.snopes2.com/rumors/crash.htm). ---
**Author:** ![KeithB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/48db29/32.png) [@KeithB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KeithB)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-approaching-jet-photo-real-or-fake/84205/7 "2001-09-27T23:01:00Z")
Wow! A quadruple simul-post! Is that a record? ---
**Author:** ![sethdallob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@sethdallob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sethdallob)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-approaching-jet-photo-real-or-fake/84205/8 "2001-09-27T23:01:12Z")
Well I think this thread is the winner of the ‘rapid fire answer’ award… ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-approaching-jet-photo-real-or-fake/84205/9 "2001-09-27T23:02:00Z")
Wow. Quadropost. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-approaching-jet-photo-real-or-fake/84205/10 "2001-09-27T23:23:45Z")
I can’t believe that anyone thought for a second that was real. I mean, just look at it and use your head! The jet is not the slightest bit blurry. It’s not reflecting the light correctly. Even if you can’t say exactly why, doesn’t it just obviously look cut & pasted in? ---
**Author:** ![sethdallob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@sethdallob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sethdallob)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-approaching-jet-photo-real-or-fake/84205/11 "2001-09-27T23:45:02Z")
Not to mention that the guy taking the picture wouldn’t have stood there and clicked the picture with the plane coming right at him. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-approaching-jet-photo-real-or-fake/84205/12 "2001-09-28T00:33:11Z")
The most obvious thing (for me) is that the dude is wearing a winter jacket and a hat. It was 85 dF and sunny on the morning of Sep. 11. Of course if you’re a non-New Yorker you probably wouldn’t know that. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_Bowe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@Doug\_Bowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_Bowe)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-approaching-jet-photo-real-or-fake/84205/13 "2001-09-28T01:34:15Z")
Here’s a cite from something _other_ than Snopes. > **[The Story of the 9/11 ‘Tourist of Death’](https://www.truthorfiction.com/lastpic/)** > > A Hungarian man's inside joke with friends turned him into an unintended conspiracy theory. Same conclusion, though. ---
**Author:** ![pezwookiee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@pezwookiee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pezwookiee)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-approaching-jet-photo-real-or-fake/84205/14 "2001-09-28T02:07:26Z")
I live eight blocks away from the WTC. (Just got phone service and hot water again recently, still need to go through several police barricades to get home.) The morning of the eleventh, I was woken up by the sound of the first plane. Not the sound of the crash, but the sound of the plane COMING DOWN. Worst sound I’ve ever heard. No one could not have noticed that. ---
**Author:** ![Lockfist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/838e76/32.png) [@Lockfist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lockfist)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-approaching-jet-photo-real-or-fake/84205/15 "2001-09-28T03:07:28Z")
So figuring out this was a hoax isn’t too hard. I’d like to see someone figure out the name of the guy in the picture. Poor dude probably posted his picture on the internet years ago only to find himself front-and-center of a WTC hoax. ---
**Author:** ![Vinnie\_Virginslayer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/53a042/32.png) [@Vinnie\_Virginslayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vinnie_Virginslayer)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-approaching-jet-photo-real-or-fake/84205/16 "2001-09-28T03:48:36Z")
Actually, what I find shocking is what kind of sick fuck would develop this ruse? The WTC attacks are should NOT be the source of sick jokes. ---
**Author:** ![c\_goat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@c\_goat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/c_goat)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-approaching-jet-photo-real-or-fake/84205/17 "2001-09-28T03:52:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lockfist \* > \*\*So figuring out this was a hoax isn’t too hard. I’d like to see someone figure out the name of the guy in the picture. Poor dude probably posted his picture on the internet years ago only to find himself front-and-center of a WTC hoax. \*\* That’s Jean Reno, right before Natalie Portman shot some guy with a sniper rifle loaded with paint pellets. ---
**Author:** ![Jeremy\_s\_Evil\_Twin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Jeremy\_s\_Evil\_Twin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeremy_s_Evil_Twin)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-approaching-jet-photo-real-or-fake/84205/18 "2001-09-28T06:25:05Z")
Just stopping by to say this isn’t the first quad-simulpost in GQ, though it might be the second. [What’s NIMBY?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=62883) was first. ---
**Author:** ![cw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71c47a/32.png) [@cw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cw)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-approaching-jet-photo-real-or-fake/84205/19 "2001-09-28T06:43:10Z")
lol, like that guy would be wearing a coat in the summer(already mentioned in previous post), and I’m sure the investegators would bother to develop the film of a burnt camera, even if they found one. ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-approaching-jet-photo-real-or-fake/84205/20 "2001-09-28T07:01:17Z")
That guy gets around… [http://www.privateelwood.f2s.com/lincoln.jpg](http://www.privateelwood.f2s.com/lincoln.jpg) [http://www.privateelwood.f2s.com/concorde.jpg](http://www.privateelwood.f2s.com/concorde.jpg) (pics courtesy of elwood from the [somethingawful.com](http://somethingawful.com) forums) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-approaching-jet-photo-real-or-fake/84205.md?page=2)