Social media users circulated a video claiming to showcase the moments before the disaster occurred after a London passenger plane crashed into a residential area in Ahmedabad City, India on June 12. But the video was circulating online about a month ago, and an Indian politician filmed the clip, confirming that his flight arrived safely at Patna city after three hours delayed.
“In the collapse of India before takeoff.
Video shows passengers using temporary fans as men In Hindi: “This is Air India flight to Patner. Today is the 18th flight time at 4 o'clock. We've been working for an hour without AC. You can see how much we're sweating.”
Screenshot of the Falles Facebook post released on June 17, 2025
Air India Flight 171 crashed in a building used by medical personnel shortly after taking off on June 12, killing at least 279 people (Archive link).
A sole survivor miraculously survived, and the crash led the rear of the plane to the fifth floor of the medical staff from a nearby hospital (link to the archive).
On-board sound and data logger have Recovered when investigators worked to determine what caused the tragic disaster (archive link).
The video is spread along with similar claims on Facebook and Burmese and Tiktok.
However, the video predates Ahmedabad's collapse almost moon.
Reverse image search on Google using KeyFrames of the video found the same clip posted on Rishi Mishra's Facebook account (archive link) on May 18.
Part of the post Hindi Languages “Air Indian Airlines' planes arrived in Patna from Delhi. The plane has been parked for an hour, but despite too many passengers on the plane, the AC is still not running.”
Screenshots compare wrong Facebook posts (L) and videos posted by Rishi Mishra
Mishraformer legislative member In Biharconfirmed with AFP that he shot the video on a flight from Delhi to Patna on May 18.
“The passengers were stranded for more than three hours as the air conditioner was not working inside the plane,” he said.
Mihsra added that they “arrived at their destination from 10:30-11:00 pm”.
Air India flight 2521 is scheduled to depart from Delhi to Patner on May 18 at 4 pm. three Hours of unresolved operational issues, passengers were transferred to another aircraft (record links here and here).
this The video was taken on an Airbus A320NEO aircraft, which had a passenger cabin than the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crashed on June 12 (link archived here and here).
AFP has previously debunked other misinformation related to the crash of Air India.
