Air Force One video has military in a flap

A startling internet video that appeared to show vandals spraying graffiti on Air Force One looked so authentic the US Air Force was not immediately certain whether the presidential plane had been targeted.

But it was all a hoax and the pranksters responsible for the grainy, two-minute web video – a New York fashion company – have revealed how they pulled it off: a rented Boeing 747 in California painted to look almost exactly like Air Force One.