this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2024
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

At first you think it is totally fake, but then you start thinking how that picture was done in the first place?

I guess the background was replaced.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The frame of the window he is leaning out of is gone. So this plane was probably receiving maintenance, guy saw the window was removed, grabbed a selfie stick, took the photo, then shopped it onto a sky background. Plane has to be still, not only because this would be extremely hard, if not physically impossible to do, but dude's hair isn't even in motion.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

The cockpit windows open on either side so that the pilots can clean the windshield easily on the ground, and then also to serve as an emergency exit with a rope ladder can be dropped out

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

if not physically impossible

It would be physically impossible. The pilot would be pulled out from the window

There's some case(s?) where this has happened when a window has broken in the cockpit

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah, I am aware. I just don't know for sure it would be impossible to overcome those forces. Most likely not, but don't know off the top of my head.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

You can wind the side windows down in most aircraft, it's how they do things like clean the windscreen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

The several hundred mile per hour wind would make holding a camera on a stick steady impossible

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also it's a 737, that's flying with most bits attached? Doesn't seem very credible.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The door is still attached, obvious fake is obvious.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Godammit. Take my blue arrow.

[–] SpaceCowboy 14 points 1 year ago

Yeah last time this came up (the image was over five years old) the conclusion was that the photo was taken on the ground and the background was replaced.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

By piecing together different aspects from multiple pics - the plane, guy, stick etc. all being real but then clouds added later, covering up landing gear.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

all i know is the windows dont line up with the plane

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yet another reason to switch to Linux