On June 12, an Air India passenger aircraft of the Indian airline crashed in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. In response to this incident, a video has been circulated on social media with the caption: “Caught fire within 10 seconds of takeoff. Horrifying scene inside the plane. Last minutes of Air India aircraft. Life is so uncertain.” The video claims to show the inside of the aircraft at the moment of the crash.
See the posts shared on Facebook with this claim here (archive), here (archive), and here (archive).
Fact-Check
The Rumor Scanner Team’s investigation found that the circulated video does not show the moment of the crash from inside the Air India passenger plane that crashed in Ahmedabad. In fact, the video being shared was originally recorded in 2020 and shows the cabin of a Ryanair aircraft filling with smoke shortly after takeoff from Romania. The Irish airline’s aircraft is being falsely presented in this context.
In the investigation, a video posted on March 19, 2023, on the X handle of Turkish civil aviation platform Hava Sosyal Medya was found here. The video bears a striking resemblance to the one now being shared with the misleading claim.
According to the video’s caption, the incident occurred on a Ryanair B737 aircraft and caused discomfort among the passengers.
Based on this information, a report published on January 22, 2020, by British media outlet The Sun, titled “RYAN-SCARE: Panic as Ryanair plane cabin suddenly fills up with smoke forcing pilots to make emergency landing,” features the same video and incident. It also reveals that the London-bound flight experienced the smoke incident shortly after taking off from Romania’s Otopeni Airport and had to make an emergency landing back at the same airport.
In other words, the video in circulation is not recent and is not related to any Air India aircraft.
Conclusion
An old video from a Ryanair flight incident has been falsely shared as footage from inside the Air India aircraft that crashed in Ahmedabad. This claim is false.
