An old and unrelated video of a turbulence-struck aeroplane is falsely shared as recent visuals of the Singapore Airlines turbulence incident - FACTLY
Sai Krishna Muthyanolla
May 23, 2024
A video (here, here) claiming to show the visuals of the Singapore Airlines flight SQ321 that experienced heavy turbulence on 21 May 2024 (here, here, and here) has gone viral on social media. Let’s fact-check this claim through this article.
Claim: Visuals of the Singapore Airlines passengers experiencing heavy turbulence on board.
Fact: This is an old video from 2019 that shows the passengers on board ALK Airlines headed towards EuroAirport Basel from Pristina, experiencing turbulence. Hence, the claim made in the post is Misleading.
Firstly, we observed that this video carried a logo of the media organisation ‘Sky News’ and also carried a text that reads ‘MIRJETA BASHA.’ Taking this as a hint, we performed a keyword search to learn more about the viral video. This search led us to a video report by ‘ABC7’ from June 2019 which carried the same video.
According to this report, this video was captured on an ALK Airlines flight when it experienced turbulence in June 2019. A further search also fetched the video report of Sky News uploaded on their ‘X’ handle. According to this report, ten people had minor injuries on this flight travelling from Pristina to EuroAirport Basel.
This is the moment a flight attendant was thrown to the ceiling of the plane after violent turbulence.
Ten people had minor injuries on the flight from Pristina to EuroAirport Basel.
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You can find a few more news reports on this incident from 2019 here, here and here.
To sum up, an old video of an ALK Airlines flight experiencing turbulence is falsely shared as visuals of passengers experiencing turbulence in the Singapore Airlines flight SQ321.