China TV news channel airs stolen scene from Top Gun!
January 29th, 2011 - 4:09 pm ICT by ANI
London, Jan 29 (ANI): A news channel in China broadcast a training exercise by the People’s Liberation Army Air Force with one plane firing a missile at another - but the scene turned out to be lifted from a Tom Cruise movie.
A viewer spotted that the resulting explosion telecast by China Central Television News last week matches a blast from the final fight scene in Top Gun, reports the Guardian.
Liu Yi showed the frame-by-frame similarities between the aired telecast and the Tom Cruise flick and the Wall Street journal has produced a video comparing the news clip with the movie scene.
However, once news spread, the broadcast vanished.
A spokeswoman in the foreign affairs department at CCTV said that she wasn’t aware of any such incident. (ANI)
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