This video is doing the rounds… popped up on FB too.
It looks only 500-1000ft below them, so the gap was only seconds. Did ATC screw up on this occassion?
Sure it’s not fake? Speed of the airplane seems slow and camera angle looks just too perfect. I’d also expect to see shocked faces and terrified camerashake…
Thought the same thing…
Judging from comments on parachuting sites, I don’t think it is a fake.
At least one of the jumpers turns his head at least twice in the direction of where the airplane disappeared. The others are too busy facing the camera.
Real of fake (+1 from me as well), but it is not “airliner passing under parachute jumpers” but “skydivers being dropped onto passing airliner”.
No wake turbulence? Hmmm would say that’s a fake as well…
There is no wake turbulence ABOVE the flight path. The vortices descend behind the airplane.
The droppers may have just missed the wake. They would have passed through that altitude only seconds later, and a miss is a miss
Also, would a parachutist notice the wake, while falling at some 100-120kt and thus passing through it wholly in a fraction of a second?
The video is too short to show them reach the wake turbulence altitude. If they met it, and were still holding together, I’d expect a disaster. (No parachute experience.)