Originally Posted by
Dim Sum
The video from this still is real. The guy in the video speaks Cantonese with a really heavy accent and the two words I understood was "直落" which means "straight down." There are two provinces in the whole of China (besides HK and Macau) where locals speak Cantonese.. Guangxi (where the plane went down) and Guangdong.
Too many armchair experts in this thread
The angle of the video relative to the flight path could make it seem like it was going straight down.
If the video was taken perpendicular to the flight path, then that would be correct.
If it was taken parallel to the flight path, it might not have been able to pick up a horizontal component of the plane going away from the video camera.
Either way, it shows a high rate of descent.
I’ll leave it to others to map out where the camera was relative to the flight path and won’t post again on this thread.