The video error of the plane's wreckage is related to the Indian-Pakistan crisis
As New Delhi and Islamabad In May 2025, Tit-Tat fighter, missile, drone and shell attacks, which had traded on its controversial border, shared a video in a post that falsely claimed it showed the wreckage of Indian fighter jets landed in Pakistan. There is a video In fact, since April 2025, reports of Pakistan Air Force jets crashed in training missions within the country.
“funeral Indian fighter jet Held in Pakistan. Pakistanis are using sand to put out the fire. ” May 7, 2025.
The video shows the burning wreckage of a crashed fighter plane, some people speaking in Punjabi, trying to put out the flames by throwing sand and dirt at it.
When India and Pakistan participated for four days Fierce battle In the worst violence For decades, among the neighbors of nuclear weapons. More than 70 people on both sides were killed in jet fighter jets, missiles, drones and heavy artillery attacks that ceased on May 10 after a ceasefire was announced (archive link).
The conflict was triggered by an April 22 attack on tourists by Kashmir gunmen managed in India, New Delhi accused Islamabad of supporting support – Pakistan's charges denied.
Screenshot of False Facebook post, captured on May 25, 2025
The video is also shared with similar posts on Facebook and Instagram.
However, in the latest conflict, the video did not show the crashed Indian jet.
Training flight crash
Reverse image search on Google using KeyFrames that mistakenly shared videos resulted in the same video posted on online news media April 16 Pakistan Etimes ((Archive link).
Its title says: “Pakistan Air Force jet has crashed near Veanari City.”
Screenshots of fake shared videos (left) and Instagram videos (right)
Pakistani news media Dawn used the still pattern from the video in his report on April 16 (archive link).
According to the Dawn report, the plane “is training for flights but crashed due to some technical fault.”
AFP has previously debunked similar posts that misrepresent the visuals in the same collapse here and uncovered other false claims related to the latest India-Pakistan conflict here.
