CNN uses a toy plane. Seriously.

By NewscastStudio March 17, 2014

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CNN has went all out for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight… until now.

A toy airplane, seriously CNN? You have a virtual studio with Tom Forman walking through a virtual plane, you have correspondents in flight simulators, you have folks flying around the world… the best you can muster now is a toy plane? Not John King at the magic wall with a 3D plane hologram?