Video ‘from fatal Air India crash in June' actually shows Hong Kong airport
In the wake of the deadly crash of Air India flight AI171 in Ahmedabad in June, a video that circulated online falsely claimed to show scenes from when the plane took off.
The 36-second
clip shot from inside a plane's cabin racked up at least 100,000 views on Facebook. In it, shouts and blaring sirens can be heard.
Screenshot of the false post with lines crossed through by the Post. Photo: Facebook/SCMP Composite
More than 200 people were killed when a
plane crashed minutes after taking off from the western Indian city of Ahmedabad on June 12, in the world's worst aviation disaster in a decade.
'Ahmedabad to London live plain [sic] crash,' the Facebook reel's caption said.
It was shared with similar claims in other posts on
YouTube and
X
But the video did not show the Air India plane which crashed, nor was it taken from said flight. Instead, it was of a plane taking off from Hong Kong.
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