Flight BA038 - no footage of the approach?
I have my conspiracy theory hat on here, but does anybody else find it weird that, with all those planespotters that hang around Heathrow with their digicams, mobile phones and out and out camcorders, there is NO footage of the approach of Flight BA038 or the subsequent crash rolling around the internet?
I find it very hard to believe. And, I want to see what happened for myself, thank you very much. I don’t want to have to rely on the ‘official reports’. Indeed, if I could see the footage, I’d be more likely to accept official reports. And it doesn’t make it better that YouTube had a video that had been tantalisingly titled “British Airways BA038 Approach” but the link explains “This video has been removed by the user”.
The cached comments for this vid say that the person handed the footage over the authorties, but I guess it’s just as likely that he’s sold it to a news outlet? Anyway, the internet being what it is, there’s got to be another link out there. And I hate not being able to see it for myself. So if you find it, please post it here. Thanks!
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Here is a link to the origional video. It’s only 9 seconds long, from a mobile phone, and does not show the crash, but shows the low speed and high angle of attack of the aircraft:
http://ufovid.abovetopsecret.com/video_FNJPR-z4SgM.html
Seems to be the only video on the net of it just now. Hopefully someone else has a clearer one.
Cool - thanks! This video is by the same person who took the one that was taken down on YouTube. So I asked why it was taken down and he said that he’d uploaded an alternate version that was slightly better quality and didn’t have all the BBC news ribbons. YouTube won’t let you reupload or overwrite a video (that would be the handiest feature around btw) so he removed the old version.
The direct link on YouTube is here:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=FNJPR-z4SgM
Damn I wanted proof it was aliens.
The nice guy who posted the YouTube vid got back to me - yay! He says he doesn’t know of any other videos but we can expect a full set of photographs shortly showing the approach and landing taken from the fence by a spotter. Apparently, he handed them over to the AAIB and they’re being sent back tomorrow and will be heading straight for the press (as you’d imagine…korr…how amazing).
holy moly! check out this footage on YouTube of a plane in Hamburg. The plane was caught in cross winds and almost crashed, but the pilot pulled it out of the fire. Awesome footage.