Trevor Collins

And because of this, there are a lot of reports sprinkled throughout the sources that we were looking at that claim that this flight was initially meant to be a 747.

So much like any of these topics we've investigated, Fredo, you see inconsistencies throughout all the different sources, and I've seen some people laying the foundation of these conspiracies by saying, oh, it was initially meant to be a different plane, and then they swapped this one in last minute, and...

As far as I can tell, especially from the National Transportation Safety Board, which we're going to talk a lot about, the NTSB, they show no record of that.

So I wanted to at least be honest about this kind of floating fact that I kind of see floated around that isn't actually a fact.

But that said, it is worth looking a little bit closer at the pre-departure plane.

So it was initially meant to be the 747.

Yes, it is a little bit older, but we'll talk about that here in a second.

It's certainly within its designed lifespan.

But for one thing, there was a strange event where a passenger baggage mismatch happened.

That happens typically when a bag makes it onto a plane without the associated passenger.

So say you're scheduled like you, Fredo, going to Australia and your bag ends up on a plane that you're not on.

They'll flag that as being kind of, well, let's look into this.

How did this happen?

Is this cause for concern or is this just an accident, et cetera?

Totally.

And so it is kind of worth investigating.

Is this a mistake or is this something that we need to look into?

Well, turns out that that ultimately ended up being a false alarm.

The passenger was indeed present on the plane,

But due to this, as well as some ground equipment malfunctions, the plane's departure was actually delayed to 8.02 p.m.