By 'staged' I don't mean 'faked', I mean not a real emergency, but a stunt done for the camera's.
Those old planes didn't carry enough fuel to stay up to wait for three planes to bring up a spare wheel and two camera's.
They also didn't have radio's, so would have had to do a couple of flypasts for people on the ground to notice what was wrong. When the 'repair' is happening, they are back up at about 10,000 feet, which the plane wold not have had enough fuel to do.
Cheers,
Jason.
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