On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 1:41 PM, John Macharia
<kihahu@gmail.com> wrote:
Hoax. The images above are video captures from the pilot episodes of the ABC television series lost
(note the handcuffs worn by the woman pictured on the left, a character
recognizable to viewers of the series as Kate Austen, played by actress
Evangeline Lilly). Similar images can be seen in video trailers for the series.
The Brazilian airliner accident referenced in the email actually happened. Gol Airlines Flight 1907
from Manaus to Brasilia went down in the Amazon jungle after the Boeing
737-800 collided with a smaller private jet on September 29, 2006. None
of the 154 passengers and crew survived the estimated 300 mph impact
when the aircraft struck the ground. At that speed it's unlikely that a
digital camera loosed in the passenger cabin would have fared any
better than its owner.
Origin of the hoax
The hoax originated in an October 26, 2006 posting by Brazilian blogger Carlos Cardoso. In a later posting he admitted to perpetrating the hoax and maintained that he did it to
demonstrate that people don't read carefully enough or apply enough
skepticism to what they find on the Internet. Cardoso went on to
predict that the text and images would circulate widely via email and
become "the new scandal of the Internet."
Presumably he is satisfied with the results.
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