Wreckage of the crashed helicopter that was carrying CDS Gen Bipin Rawat shared as that of crashed Tara aircraft in Nepal - FACTLY
Sai Krishna Muthyanolla
May 30, 2022
An image is being shared on social media claiming it is the wreckage of the crashed Tara aircraft in Nepal. The Tara Air’s 9 NAET twin-engine, which went missing on 29 May 2022, was found crashed at the Kowang village in Mustang district of Nepal. Let’s verify the claim made in the post.
Claim: Photo showing the wreckage of the crashed Tara Air’s 9 NAET twin-engine aircraft in Nepal.
Fact: The photo shared in the post shows the remains of the crashed IAF chopper that killed Indian Former Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Bipin Rawat in December 2021. The crash took place near Coonor hill station in Tamil Nadu. The photo has nothing to do with the recent aircraft crash in Nepal. Hence the claim made in the post is FALSE.
On reverse image search of the photo shared in the post, the same photo was found in an ‘India Today’ article published on 09 December 2021. ‘India Today’ reported it as the wreckage of the crashed IAF Mi-17V chopper that killed India’s former Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Bipin Rawat and 11 others. Several other news websites have also published the same image with a similar description. They can be seen here and here.
The Tara Air’s 9 NAET twin-engine aircraft that went missing on 29 May 2022, was found crashed at the Kowang village in the Mustang district of Nepal. The wreckage of the crashed Tara aircraft can be seen here and here. From all these pieces of evidence, it can be concluded that the image shared in the post is old and not related to the recent aircraft crash in Nepal.
To sum it up, the wreckage of the crashed helicopter that was carrying CDS Gen Bipin Rawat is shared as that of crashed Tara aircraft in Nepal.