Filipino netizens are sharing a video supposedly showing the last scenes inside the Air India passenger plane that crashed in Ahmedabad on June 12. The video is old and not related to the deadly disaster.
Since June 14, at least three Facebook (FB) users posted an eight-second video taken inside a plane experiencing severe turbulence. A copy published on June 14 carried the text:
“OMG!!! Last view before India plane crash. Only 1 survival (sic) alive.”
Another post on June 15 bore the caption with the same claim:
“Chilling last moment inside Air India flight 171 plane crash that killed more than 290 people including the local residents near the airport of Ahmedabad India.”
While the crash truly happened, these posts are false. The video is unrelated to the incident and has been circulating online since 2022.
Reverse image searching ultimately led VERA Files Fact Check to a video uploaded by TikTok user @aestheticsvibes on May 1, 2022, more than three years before the Air India plane crash. The post’s caption read:
“It was the scariest plane I’ve ever flown in.”
At the six-second mark, the flyers at the back of the chairs also read “AIRBUS A321,” an airliner manufactured by the European aerospace corporation Airbus. The plane that crashed last week was a Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
One of the brochures also bore the text “Pegasus cafe” – the food and beverage service provided to passengers of Pegasus Airlines, a Turkish air carrier.
While there are surveillance footage and other contributed videos of the plane crash from outside, there have yet to be any reports about a recovered recording taken inside the plane before it crashed.
The video with erroneous context circulated two days after the aviation incident that killed at least 290 people – including the passengers and people on the ground. Only one survived among the 242 passengers of the ill-fated flight.
Earlier this week, VERA Files also debunked old photos that have been recycled to show the plane crash’s “aftermath.”
The reels uploaded by three FB users collectively garnered 40,726 reactions, 4,542 comments, 2,702 shares and 13.4 million views.
