One might also question the likelihood of someone being able to capture such a sharp image of an unplanned event.
Also, most photos shown in media outlets portray the aircraft as moving from left to right (i.e. undercarriage towards the left of the image), this photo is the opposite.
Well I don't question the likelihood at all. Then again people sometimes ask me to take images and I understand how to take pictures, and how to work a camera.
The guy was assigned to shoot the event so the chances of him submitting a photoshopped 'moneyshot' like this with worldwide sydication to news media, is about as unlikely as you working out where he was positioned to take it. To do that would be the fastest way of assuring you never get any work again. The only thing second to the number of armchair accident investigators when these sorts of event occur, is the number of armchair professional photographers it brings out.