IT'S the type of thing that happened in the fictional current affairs show Frontline.
Host Mike Moore would cross to a reporter who was allegedly in a hostile zone, but was really nowhere near danger, the Courier-Mail reported.
Fiction became reality last weekend when Channel 9's weekend news bulletins crossed to reporters in a helicopter allegedly hovering over the Daniel Morcombe search site "near Beerwah".
On Saturday, the helicopter was in reality over Chapel Hill in Brisbane's western suburbs. On Sunday, the chopper was sitting on Channel 9's helipad, with the rotor blades whirring.
In a statement released by the network last night, Nine admitted that they had faked the crosses to the news helicopter.
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