CLAIMZaid Hamid
, famous in
Pakistan for Anti-Hindu and Anti-Jewish commentary, put out
photo of a crashed chopper on Twitter to claim that an
Indian Air Force (IAF) MI-17 helicopter crashed in
Ladakh
.
Habitual fake news peddling
account Irmak Idoya too tweeted the same photo to claim the same.
Pakistani journalist Mubasher Lucman also posted the same photo showing wreckage of a MI-17 chopper to imply that an IAF helicopter crashed recently in Ladakh.
TRUTHThe photo is from 2018.
VERIFICATION AND METHODOLOGYUsing reverse-image search, we found a Times of India news report dated April 3, 2018 which carried the same image.
Titled ‘IAF helicopter collides with iron girder, catches fire; one person killed’, the report mentions that an MI-17 helicopter caught fire after it hit an iron girder while it was attempting to land in a helipad near the
Kedarnath
temple.
The report carried more photos from the accident.
VERDICTTimes Fact Check has found that a 2018 photo of an IAF MI-17 helicopter wreckage is being falsely passed off as a recent one from Ladakh.