On 12 June 2025, Air India Flight AI 171, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner bound for London Gatwick, crashed shortly after taking off from Ahmedabad. The aircraft lost altitude within minutes and went down in the Meghani Nagar area near the airport, erupting in flames (here, here). It crashed into the hostel building of B.J. Medical College and Civil Hospital, which was reportedly housing medical students at the time. Over 240 people were on board, including nationals of India, the UK, Portugal, and Canada (here). Investigation into the causes of the incident is ongoing, led by the DGCA, AAIB, and Air India.
In this context, a video circulating on social media (here, here, and here) claims to show a Quran found in the wreckage of the 12 June 2025 Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad. Let’s verify the claim made in the post through this article.
Claim: The video shows an intact copy of the Quran that was found in the wreckage of the 12 June 2025 Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad.
Fact: The video has been available online since at least March 2025, predating the 12 June 2025 Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad, and is unrelated to the incident. No credible reports confirm that a intact copy of the Quran was recovered from the site. However, a few media outlets reported that an almost-intact copy of the Bhagavad Gita was found in the wreckage though it could not be independently verified. Hence, the claim made in the post is MISLEADING.
We searched the internet using relevant keywords to verify the viral claim, but found no credible reports confirming that a Quran was found in the debris of the 12 June 2025 Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad. However, several media outlets (here, here, and here) reported that an almost-intact copy of the Bhagavad Gita was recovered from the site. However, we could not independently verify this.
We then did a reverse image search of the keyframes from the viral video led us to several social media posts (here, here, here, here, and here) (archived) from March 2025 featuring the same visuals, confirming that it was already online before the 12 June 2025 Air India crash. One of the posts alleges that the video is from Libya.
Though we could not independently verify when & where the video was originally filmed, available evidence confirms that it was posted online before the 12 June 2025 Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad and is unrelated to the incident.
To sum up, this viral video does not show a Quran found in the wreckage of the June 2025 Ahmedabad plane crash; it predates the incident.
