Users on social media were tricked by a prank post falsely identifying adult model Johnny Sins as the Delta pilot who crash-landed in Toronto on Monday.
A satirical post on X showed Sins in a Delta pilot’s uniform, claiming he had saved lives thanks to 420 flight hours on 69 aircraft. Some quickly caught the joke, recognizing Sins from his various roles, but others believed it.
“420 hours is very little,” one person pointed out. “Are you sure? That’s not enough to fly dozens of aircraft.” The post later received a community note marking it as false and AI-generated.
Delta has not yet released the names of the pilots involved in the crash, which happened when the plane flipped on an icy runway with 80 passengers onboard.
This incident is part of a series of recent aviation accidents in the U.S. Last month, an American Airlines jet crashed into a Black Hawk helicopter, killing 67 people.
After Sins was wrongly identified as the pilot, some compared the joke to last month’s tragedy, where the helicopter pilot had only 500 flight hours. One user commented, “Last month, 500 hours wasn’t enough. Now, it makes a hero?”
Others immediately recognized the prank and questioned, “Did we really need a community note for this?”
This is not the first time Sins has been the subject of such jokes. The same X account previously claimed he was a border patrol agent who deported 420 undocumented people from 69 families.
Meanwhile, shocking new footage shows the moment the Delta jet crash-landed. The plane skidded on the icy runway at Toronto Pearson International Airport before bursting into flames.
The video shows Endeavor Flight 4819 from Minneapolis approaching the runway, but as it lands, flames shoot out from underneath the aircraft. Thick black smoke rises as the plane slides across the snow-covered ground.
Survivors described the terrifying experience. Passenger Peter Koukov said they were left “hanging upside down like bats.” Another passenger recalled a “big fireball on the left side.”
At least 18 people were injured, including a child. Canadian authorities are still investigating the cause and have sealed off two runways.
Experts believe a strong gust of wind hit the plane upon landing, causing it to flip over and catch fire.
