Chicago News Crew Covers Fake Plane Crash

Last Friday morning, WGN Morning News anchors Larry Potash and Robin Baumgarten covered an apparent plane wreck on Martin Luther Kind Drive. Shortly after covering the story they found out that the wreck was part of a TV shoot for NBC's 'Chicago Fire'.

After ad-libbing for a while they found out that the wreck was a fake and thought that they should have been the first to know about the shoot, "Are you kidding me? They might want to tell the news folks when they're doing this and shutting down King Drive," Baumgarten suggests.

Even residents in Chicago thought that the crash was for real. The news station released this statement afterwards:

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.

If you can't count on a news station to give you factual news, who can you count on. Maybe the radio station? This news crew gets our Nincompoop in the News.