TV reporter's mortifying live blunder

Stuffing up on live television is every reporter’s worst nightmare.

Now footage has emerged of Boston 25 news reporter Kathryn Burcham falling victim to this very sort of cringeworthy scenario, when she mistakenly blamed a plane crash on a ‘flux capacitor’.

If anyone needs reminding, a flux capacitor is the fictional time travel device invented in 1985 Hollywood film, Back To The Future.

Burcham was on the ground at Massachussets airport for a live broadcast after the plane had crashed when she innocently made the mistake as she referred to a source.

“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,” she reported with the utmost professionalism.

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

The flux capacitor became famous in 80s flick Back To The Future.

It was a component in Dr Emmet Brown’s time travelling DeLorean sports car used by Michael J Fox’s character Marty McFly to go back to 1955.

Viewers will remember McFly is left stranded in the past when the flux capacitor is short of plutonium fuel.

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