Another example of a deliberate hoax
posted on Facebook by Madison Star Moon:
A commenter asks:
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Julie Marie AldertonI wanna know who is that guy, who signs his paycheck, where does he live or plan on living? ???
The posted photo deliberately omits the source and the title of the video so it's quite hard to find the original. But it turns out that this is a screenshot from one of the latest episodes of the Canadian documentary TV series "Découverte" (Discovery) which presents the development of the
Bombardier CSeries aircraft. The segment with the image above can be watched here:
http://ici.radio-canada.ca/tele/decouverte/2015-2016/segments/reportage/5524/series
In the segment it is clearly explained (in French) that the barrels are ballast tanks that simulate the weight of the passengers.
To answer Julie Marie Alderton's question: The person in the photo is Nicolas Tamestit, flight test engineer, his paycheck is signed by Bombardier Inc., and he lives in Montreal, Canada. Here's a video where he presents his work in some detail:
and he also explains how the water-filled ballast tanks are used during the flight testing:
It is obvious that the photo posted by Madison Star Moon is a deliberate hoax as whoever made the screenshot of the video must have watched the entire video and must have been well aware that it presents the flight testing of the Bombardier CSeries and the tanks are ballast tanks containing water.
Screenshots from an older Bombardier CSeries flight testing video were even used to create images
like this one:
In fact this is from this video titled "Flight Test Crew Emergency Egress and Evacuation Testing", at 1:45 in the video: