Originally Posted by
Austrian Simon
So far I found out that there was never a livestream out of the cabin, it was not possible to livestream for this user. Facebook permits livestreams only for users with more than 10,000 followers.
This is incorrect. I just checked my app, and I am able to start a Facebook livestream with just a few hundred friends/followers.
I was also sceptical of the cabin video when it first surfaced. There are people who would fake that kind of thing for social media engagement. And while the video doesn't show enough to prove that it is genuine, everything in the video matches the known facts. If it was a fake for somebody's social media fame, I'd be surprised if they got even the right aircraft model.
As it is, the video shows
- The correct aircraft/airline
- The correct flight path
- Passengers reacting to the sudden roll
- Plausible crash & post-crash
It's possible that somebody found a video of a matching approach and appended the crash sequence. But that doesn't explain the passenger reaction to the roll. And they couldn't have started with any publicly available video, or somebody would have found the source by now.
The simplest and most plausible explanation is that it's a genuine video.