China TV news channel airs stolen scene from Top Gun!

A news channel in China broadcast a training exercise by the People's Liberation Army Air Force with one plane firing a missile at another - but the scene turned out to be lifted from a Tom Cruise movie.

A viewer spotted that the resulting explosion telecast by China Central Television News last week matches a blast from the final fight scene in Top Gun, reports the Guardian.

Liu Yi showed the frame-by-frame similarities between the aired telecast and the Tom Cruise flick and the Wall Street journal has produced a video comparing the news clip with the movie scene.

However, once news spread, the broadcast vanished.

A spokeswoman in the foreign affairs department at CCTV said that she wasn't aware of any such incident.

Tom Cruise 'original choice for DDLJ'

Tom Cruise is reported to have been the first choice for the leading role in Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge.

The Times of India reports that Aditya Chopra had originally wanted to make a crossover film with a US actor in the main part.

However, the newspaper claims that the filmmaker had to rework the script as producer Yash Chopra did not want to cast a foreign star.

After 15 years of screening at the Maratha Mandir in Mumbai, the production remains the longest-running film in the history of Indian cinema.

The role of Raj Malhotra has gone on to become one of Shah Rukh Khan's most commercially successful and critically-acclaimed parts.