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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Another North Goa nightclub sealed; Kejriwal says corruption led to fire tragedy
Panaji (PTI): As part of a crackdown against tourist establishments violating laws and safety norms in the aftermath of the Arpora fire tragedy, Goa authorities on Saturday sealed a renowned club at Vagator and revoked the fire department NOC of another club.
Cafe CO2 Goa, located on a cliff overlooking the Arabian Sea at Vagator beach in North Goa, was sealed. The move came two days after Goya Club, also in Vagator, was shut down for alleged violations of rules.
Elsewhere, campaigning for local body polls, AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal said the fire incident at Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub at Arpora, which claimed 25 lives on December 6, happened because the BJP government in the state was corrupt.
An inspection of Cafe CO2 Goa by a state government-appointed team revealed that the establishment, with a seating capacity of 250, did not possess a no-objection certificate (NOC) of the Fire and Emergency Services Department. The club, which sits atop Ozrant Cliff, also did not have structural stability, the team found.
The Fire and Emergency Services on Saturday also revoked the NOC issued to Diaz Pool Club and Bar at Anjuna as the fire extinguishers installed in the establishment were found to be inadequate, said divisional fire officer Shripad Gawas.
A notice was issued to Nitin Wadhwa, the partner of the club, he said in the order.
Campaigning at Chimbel village near Panaji in support of his party's Zilla Panchayat election candidate, Aam Aadmi Party leader Kejriwal said the nightclub fire at Arpora happened because of the "corruption of the Pramod Sawant-led state government."
"Why this fire incident happened? I read in the newspapers that the nightclub had no occupancy certificate, no building licence, no excise licence, no construction licence or trade licence. The entire club was illegal but still it was going on," he said.
"How could it go on? Couldn't Pramod Sawant or anyone else see it? I was told that hafta (bribe) was being paid," the former Delhi chief minister said.
A person can not work without bribing officials in the coastal state, Kejriwal said, alleging that officers, MLAs and even ministers are accepting bribes.
