Reporter tricked into saying plane’s crash landing was caused by a faulty ‘flux capacitor’

THIS is the cringe-worthy moment a TV journalist was tricked during a live broadcast in a very unexpected way.

THIS is the embarrassing moment a TV journalist blamed a plane crash on a faulty “flux capacitor” — the fictional time travel device from the film, Back To The Future.

Boston 25 news reporter Kathryn Burcham made the blunder during a broadcast from a Massachusetts airport where a plane had crash-landed, The Sun reported.

Reporting live from the scene, and referring to a source, she said: “Hazel then told us that the issue was with a defective flux capacitor though the National Transport Safety Board would not comment on any potential cause today.

“Go Skydive Boston didn’t respond to a written request for comment.”

The reporter made the blunder on live TV.

She had seemingly been tricked into thinking the device was a genuine aircraft part.

But the flux capacitor was the core component of Dr Emmet Brown’s time-travelling DeLorean sports car in the Back To The Future film trilogy.

In the original film, Michael J Fox’s Marty McFly uses the car to travel back to 1955, but is stranded in the past when the flux capacitor runs out of its plutonium fuel.

Great Scott, Marty! It’s that pesky flux capacitor again.

He was forced to use a lightning strike to jump start the car’s time travel features while also trying to save his parents’ relationship before it even started.

In the news clip, the man identified as Hazel added with a grin: “As I’ve said we’ve really never had any problems. The airport is run very well.”

In the film, the flux capacitor fuels the time-travelling DeLorean.

The plane flipped over during the attempted landing when it careered off the runway onto a dirt track.

The local fire department confirmed a man suffered minor injuries in the crash.

This article originally appeared on The Sun and was reproduced with permission.