With the rise of social media and generative AI, how much of what we see online is true? In this new series, SCMP Fact-Check, the Post investigates claims circulating online and debunks viral misinformation impacting the daily lives of Hongkongers.
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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.
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 Facebook, YouTube and X.
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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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