Three edited videos falsely portrayed as Indian plane crash
A video recently circulated on the social media platform Facebook, purportedly showing moments just before the plane crash in Ahmedabad, India, on June 12. Several users shared the same video, claiming it depicted the immediate lead-up to the Ahmedabad crash. However, verification has revealed that the claim is false. The widely shared video was manipulated by combining three separate incidents— none of which are connected to any recent event in Ahmedabad.
Several Facebook users shared a 1-minute and 4-second video allegedly showing a plane crash (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6). Throughout the video, passengers can be seen seated inside an aircraft as it experiences repeated turbulence. The audio features the sound of multiple people screaming.
One such video shared on Facebook has garnered over 1.8 million views to date. More than 250,000 users have reacted to the post, which has been shared over 15,000 times. However, many users in the comments have pointed out that the video is fake.
To verify the authenticity of the circulating video, Dismislab conducted an online reverse image search using keyframes from the footage. The verification revealed that the single video had been created by combining old footage from three separate incidents.
First Footage
The first four seconds of the circulated video are nearly two years old. A reverse image search reveals an identical but longer 22-second version of the clip posted on a verified Instagram account.
The video was posted from an account named “vincentraditya” on July 14, 2023. In the post caption, written in Indonesian, it is stated that the footage was recorded while flying through rain and lightning. An analysis of the account shows that it is operated from Indonesia and managed by a professional pilot. The account regularly shares various aviation-related videos.
Second Footage
The 36-second segment spanning from the 5th to the 40th second of the video originates from a separate incident. While tracing the source of this footage, Dismislab came across a verification report by the Indian fact-checking organization Fact Crescendo, which published a fact-check on the clip in the Assamese language.
After the video began circulating in India with the claim that it showed the Ahmedabad plane crash, the verification report clarified that the footage was unrelated to the incident. Instead, it was confirmed to be two years old. According to the report, the video was recorded by a passenger on an Emirates A380 flight during a lightning storm in 2023.
Third Footage
The final 24-second segment of the video, spanning from the 41st second to the end, originates from a separate, older incident. This same footage had previously been verified in a fact-check report published in Arabic by AFP Fact Check on February 22, 2024.
At the time, the video was circulated with the false claim that it showed a plane crash in the United Arab Emirates caused by heavy rainfall. However, AFP’s report clarified that the footage actually depicted in-flight turbulence due to adverse weather conditions, which is normal in volatile weather.
This indicates that footage from three separate, older incidents was selectively extracted, edited, and pieced together before being disseminated on Facebook with the false claim that it depicted the immediate moments before the recent Ahmedabad plane crash.
On June 12, 2025, an Air India aircraft crashed into a residential area just seconds after taking off from Ahmedabad en route to London’s Gatwick Airport. Among the 242 passengers on board, all but a British national lost their lives in the crash. Medical authorities in the country have confirmed that a total of 270 bodies, including those of some residents, have so far been recovered from the crash site.
