Fact Check: Airplane crash video of Iran being shared on social media is fake
Clip from Flight Simulator software falsely being shared as ‘Airplane Crashed in Iran'
A short video clip is reportedly being shared widely across social media platforms with claims adding that it is the video of a crash landing of a Garuda Indonesia (Indonesia’s National airline) at Mashhad Airport in Iraq.
The claims further add that the video is of January 7, 2022, when the flight was landing at Mashhad Airport in Iraq but crash-landed.
It has, however, emerged that the video is fake and is from flight simulating software. Moreover, the search for plane crashes in Iran this year has led to no results.
According to a report published on The Quint, the video was uploaded on 2 May 2020 by a verified YouTube channel called ‘Bopbibun.’
Its description reads, "This is only in the flight simulation. This situation is not real! Everything in this video doesn't happen in real life, because this situation is just a challenge for me to try in the flight simulation."
The section of the video that is seen in the viral claim starts at the 05:55-minute mark.
The frames of the video also matched with the viral video.
Clearly, a clip from a flight simulation software is being shared as an Indonesian airplane crash landing in Iran.
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Expelled Cong MLA Mamkootathil gets bail in sexual assault case
Pathanamthitta(Kerala) (PTI): A Kerala court on Wednesday granted bail to expelled Congress MLA Rahul Mamkootathil in the third sexual assault case against him, in which he was arrested earlier this month.
The bail was granted by the Pathanamthitta District Sessions Court, which was considering an appeal filed by the MLA against a judicial magistrate's court that had denied him relief, stating that the allegations against him were serious and that he had "similar antecedents".
The third sexual assault case was registered against the Palakkad MLA under Sections 376 (rape) and 506(1) (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), following a complaint lodged by a woman from Kottayam district on 8 January. He was arrested in the case on January 11 in Palakkad.
The Kerala High Court and a sessions court in Thiruvananthapuram had earlier protected the MLA from arrest in the first two sexual assault cases, which were registered based on complaints from two different women.
