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Fact Check: Final moments of AI171 passengers? No, these videos are old
A doctor couple that was about to begin a new chapter of their life in London. Two sisters who were returning to their home in the UK after celebrating their grandmother's birthday. A family that was returning to England after a happy Eid reunion. All these lives and more were taken away in the deadly Air India crash in families grieve and investigators look for answers, several videos claiming to capture the passengers' last moments began circulating online. However, many of them have absolutely nothing to do with this this story, we shall debunk four such WELCOMING HIS MOTHER? NOT ON AI171
This video ( shows a heartwarming announcement by a pilot for his mother, followed by a round of applause by the passengers. Many claimed the video showed a happy in-flight moment before Flight AI171 crashed. Fact: The video was posted on Instagram ( by a pilot named Aswath Pushpan on March 15, predating the crash by about three months. Many news outlets ( had reported this wholesome story at the AND CHAOSAnother video ( showing smoke and an atmosphere of panic inside an airplane is also being shared as footage from inside the ill-fated Air India flight. Some people can be heard crying for help. Fact: A quick reverse search of the viral video led us to a March 2023 post ( by the Turkish aviation platform Hava Sosyal Medya. As per the post, this incident happened inside a Ryanair aircraft, an Irish airliner. However, we did not find any credible news reports about such an incident in a Ryanair aircraft in looking further, we found that there was one such incident in 2020 ( when a Ryanair flight on its way to Stansted Airport in London abruptly turned back and landed at the Romanian capital of Bucharest due to the cabin filling up with smoke. The visuals related to this incident ( were very similar to the viral video.A spokesperson for Ryanair had told The Sun ( that unidentified smoke in the cabin was possibly caused by the de-icing fluid being ingested through the air conditioning system. It is quite likely that the viral video is related to this OF TURBULENCEThis video ( showing passengers terrified due to turbulence is also making the rounds on social media in relation to the AI171 crash. Fact: We found this video in a 2023 Daily Mail report ( about terrifying turbulence experiences of passengers. In the report, this video has been attributed to TikTok user "skytleea". However, the post has since been found an older version of this video which was posted on YouTube ( in October 2022. Clearly, it doesn't have anything to do with the recent Air India AND SCREAMSMany shared ( a video of a horrified man praying inside a plane in connection with the Air India accident. Some people can also be heard screaming in the background. An archive of the clip can be viewed here ( Fact: Using reverse search, we found that this video was shared ( on May 17 by an Instagram user. This means that this video is at least a month old. Many on social media also pointed out that the design and colour scheme of the plane seen in the viral video is quite similar to the aircraft of carefully looking at the video, one can see "How time flies" written behind the seat of the passengers. The same tagline can be seen written behind seats on the other IndiGo aircraft, such as in this video ( shared by the Border Security Force (BSF) on June 11.
Clearly, old and unrelated videos are shared as the last moments inside the Air India aircraft that crashed in Watch
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