TV hosts report on fake plane crash

A plane crash in Chicago turned out to be a TV show, but no-one told the news anchors at WGN Morning News.

WGN-TV Morning News anchors Larry Potash and Robin Baumgarten react to the footager of the "fake" plane crash.. Source: Supplied

TV anchors bluff through the footage of the "fake" plane crash
"Another solid journalstic (sic) effort today."
TV received calls from the public concerned about the "crash"

A PAIR of morning TV news anchors have gone viral after scrambling to report on helicopter footage of a plane crash that was staged for a TV show.

WGN-TV Morning News anchors Larry Potash and Robin Baumgarten bluffed through the footage of the crash near 29th Street and Martin Luther King Drive, Chicago, around 8am on Friday, Huffington Post reported

A few minutes later, they learned that the apparent wreckage had actually been staged for the NBC series Chicago Fire.

"Are you kidding me? They might want to tell the news folks when they're doing this and shutting down King Drive," Baumgarten suggests.

"Just to be clear, the other stories in that news block were real. Just the last one, not so much," Potash added.

The fake plane crash filmed for NBC's series Chicago Fire that a rival Chicago TV station thought was real. Source: Supplied

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After the segment aired, Chicago Fire Department tweeted that the apparent crash had been staged by WGN-TV's prime-time rivals at NBC.

The made-for-TV show footage also fooled DNAinfo.com Chicago who interviewed residents from the area who thought the crash was "for real." Several commuters were also reportedly confused by the scene.

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The WGN Morning News crew did have a good sense of humor about the blooper, later in the show running "breaking" clips from Godzilla and tweeting: "We don't call it #mustwatch for no reason. Another solid journalstic (sic) effort today."

WGN-TV's news director Greg Caputo released the following statement:"WGN News received a number of viewer phone calls and tweets about an airplane crash on King Drive. Our helicopter was close by and was the first news helicopter to arrive on the scene. Based on police radio traffic, several officers in the area were similarly alarmed that there was a plane crash. We contacted Chicago Police, Chicago Fire, and the FAA seeking information. All of those public agencies said they had no knowledge of a plane crash. But none of them said that it was a scene from a movie."

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