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AFP
2 days ago
- AFP
Old flight footage misrepresented as Air India disaster
"From Air India crash, just before the take off," reads Burmese-language sticker text on a Facebook video uploaded June 13, 2025. The video shows passengers using makeshift fans as a man "This is an Air India flight to Patna. Today is the 18th and the flight is at 4 o'clock. We have been on the flight for an hour, without AC. You can see how much we are sweating." Image Screenshot of the false Facebook post taken June 17, 2025 Air India flight 171 crashed into a building used by medical staff shortly after takeoff on June 12, killing at least 279 (archived link). One sole survivor miraculously survived the fiery crash, which left the tailpiece of the aircraft jutting out of the second floor of a hostel for medical staff from a nearby hospital (archived link). The inflight voice and data recorders been recovered as investigators work to determine what caused the tragic disaster (archived link). The video spread alongside similar claims on Facebook in English and Burmese, as well as on TikTok. However, the video predates the Ahmedabad crash by almost a . A reverse image search on Google using the video's keyframes found an identical clip published May 18 on the Facebook account of Rishi Mishra (archived link). Parts of the post's caption reads: "Coming to Patna from Delhi by 4 o'clock flight of Air India. The plane has been parked for an hour but the AC hasn't been operated despite being so much passenger on the plane." Image Screenshot comparison of the false Facebook post (L) and the video posted by Rishi Mishra , a former legislative member , confirmed with AFP that he filmed the video during a flight from Delhi to Patna on May 18. "Passengers were kept stranded for more than three hours as the air conditioner was not working inside the plane," he said June 16. Mihsra added that they "reached the destination around 10:30-11:00 in the evening." Air India flight 2521 was scheduled to depart from Delhi to Patna at 4 pm on May 18. But after hours of unsolved operational issues, passengers were transferred to a different aircraft (archived links here and here). video was filmed on an Airbus A320neo aircraft -- which has a smaller passenger cabin than the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner that crashed June 12 (archived links here and here). AFP has previously debunked other misinformation related to the Air India crash here and here.
Yahoo
13-06-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Old visuals misrepresented as Air India crash
"This is a live video of the plane crash in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, at that time, in which a boy came live on Facebook before the Boeing 787-8 plane crashed, and this accident happened at the same time," says a Hindi-language Facebook post shared just hours after the disaster. One man aboard the Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner miraculously survived the fiery crash, which left the tailpiece of the aircraft jutting out of the second floor of a hostel for medical staff from a nearby hospital (archived link). The video in the post, which was also shared on X, shows a young passenger inadvertently filming the final moments before the plane he was in crashes. "Footage Just before the Ahmedabad flight crash," says a TikTok post that shared another clip, showing a cabin filled with smoke. Another post, written in Burmese and shared on Facebook, contains a picture of a burning aircraft on a runway. "London-bound Indian plane carrying 242 passengers, crashed in Gujarat, many feared dead," the caption reads. The circulating visuals are unrelated to the Air India tragedy. A reverse image search of the first video's keyframes led to news reports about a plane crash in central Nepal in January 2023 (archived here and here). The Yeti Airlines service was flying from Kathmandu to Pokhara, a gateway for religious pilgrims and trekkers, when it crashed on descent. All 72 on board were killed (archived link). According to Britain's The Guardian newspaper, local police and a close friend of the young man shown in the recording verified his identity and several other individuals in the footage (archived link). Meanwhile, the second clip has earlier been posted on TikTok on March 16, 2023 with a caption indicating it was taken on-board the Irish no-frills carrier Ryanair (archived link). The TikTok user indicated the passengers were safe and filmed a separate clip showing himself inside the plane reacting to the commotion (archived link). The aircraft's interior shown in the falsely shared clip matches a stock image taken inside a Ryanair plane (archived link). Finally, the falsely shared picture has earlier been published in multiple news articles about the Jeju Air crash in South Korea on December 29, 2024 (archived here and here). AFP also distributed the photo. Its caption reads: "In this handout photo provided by the South Korean National Fire Agency, Jeju Air Flight 7C2216 burns after skidding off the runway at Muan International Airport on December 29, 2024 in Muan-gun, South Korea." The Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 was carrying 181 passengers from Thailand when it smashed into a barrier during its landing at Muan International Airport and burst into flames. The impact killed everyone aboard except for two flight attendants plucked from the wreckage (archived link).
