There is something decidedly ominous about this 1979 Pakistan Airline advert which features New York’s Twin Towers embossed with the dark, looming shadow of an approaching jumbo jet.
It first appeared way back in 1979, in the March 19th edition of a French weekly called Le Point, and considering what happened to the Twin Towers two decades later and the strong connections that disaster had to Pakistan, it appears to people now as a foreboding, prophetic image of that terrible day.

It is so surreal, that you could be forgiven for questioning its authenticity, wondering perhaps if it was some kind of twisted hoax, however it has been verified by a reference librarian at the UCLA’s Charles E. Young Research Library.

The advert has been doing the rounds again recently and though it may seem like some sort of ominous warning for the awful events that took place on 9/11, it is just a disturbing coincidence!

1979 Pakistan Airlines WTC Ad (Museum of Hoax Via Reddit)

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