Talk:Red Wings Airlines Flight 9268

Infobox photo
Out of interest, where was the photo taken two hours before the crash sourced from? Scunner3rd (talk) 00:45, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I would guess from an ATC member or general citizen. The photos of the crashed craft are also here > http://aviation-safety.net/photos/displayphoto.php?id=20121229-0&vnr=1&kind=C  --His Lordship,The Count of Tuscany (you wish to address his honor?) 02:05, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

Doubts about the photograph
I'd like to share my doubts with the community to be either confirmed or disproved. The photographer claims this photo was taken two hours before the crash. The metadata says it's 10:32. Aparently the time is UTC. It can't be Eastern European (Poland) time zone because then it would mean that it was taken 40 minutes before the airplane took off. It means that the local time was 11:32. In the Northern hemisphere the noon sun should be roughly at the South or South-East. And, if the airplane is flying East or North-East (as the route suggests) the sun should be illuminating the airplane's starboard. However, on the photograph the sun is aparently shining from the quarter port side (you can see the sun reflection on the left side of the windshield). This implies that the airplane is either flying West in the afternoon or is flying East in the morning in the Southern hemisphere. Do I understand this part correctly? It is also very suspicious that such a unique shot wasn't used by any news agencies or published on plane-spotters websites. I believe the reason for that is that both of those require the original photograph with genuine metadata. Does anyone have any ideas about all this? BadaBoom (talk) 17:10, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
 * File:EXIF Canon 500D .JPG is the same camera model with accurate metadata if anyone wants to compare.--Canoe1967 (talk) 08:29, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Not even close to what is shown in the "last photo". Well, it's pretty clear now that the photo (or at least the description) is fake. BadaBoom (talk) 09:39, 2 January 2013 (UTC)