What was supposed to be a routine fuselage training at Logan Airport in Boston on Wednesday, resulted in a complete misunderstanding among airline passengers who misinterpreted the flaming fuselage as an actual fire.

The simulated burning aircraft was apparently so realistic that it eventually caused a huge stir on social media.

Boston magazine reports that TV celebrity Andrew Zimmern was the first to start the Twitter and Instagram frenzy. Zimmern posted a photo to his 700,000 followers of what looked like a burning plane along with the caption "Am I alone seeing a plane on fire on Tarmac at Logan in Boston? Lots of lights and responding vehicles and a blackened hull spewing flames."

The burning plane was actually part of a training course being conducted at Logan airport. The spokesperson for the Boston Fire Department told Boston Magazine that "the flames were likely part of the airport's monthly training drills, where they set a fuselage replica aflame and then try and put it out as if responding to a real-life emergency." Despite the apparent false alarm, Zimmern and other social media critics were still not at ease. Zimmern tweeted, "Wow. Test burns and training ops should be announced in airport. Lots of scared ppl staring out windows. No officials saying anything."

He also retweeted a post from @vplus who wrote, "They really ought to say something over loudspeakers when this happens. Lots of freaked out folks."

This isn't the first time Logan Airport has gotten itself in hot water for their elaborate fire drills.

USA Today reports that last year, Boston airport officials were forced to apologize for a fire drill that was conducted on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Gov. Deval Patrick called the timing of that drill "dumb."

Hopefully this year's public outrage will push Logan airport to be a bit smarter when it comes to their training procedures.

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