In one of Nepal’s deadliest aviation disasters in the last 30 years, Yeti Airlines ATR 72 aircraft, carrying 72 people, crashed into a gorge minutes before landing at the Pokhara airport on January 15, 2023.
Following the incident, videos and pictures claiming to be of the recent crash started doing the rounds on social media.
Here’s the link to the above post.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the post, and found the image to be old.
Putting the picture through the Reverse Image Search, we traced a report in Daily Excelsior, dated April 15, 2019, featuring the same image.
According to a report by BBC Nepali that carries the same image — dated April 14, 2019, the incident happened when a small passenger plane skidded off the runway while preparing to take off, and hit helicopters parked metres away from the runway at Tenzing-Hillary Airport — known as Lukla Airport — in Nepal.
AFP also uploaded the same image on April 14, 2019, with a description: A Summit Air Let L-410 Turbolet aircraft bound for Kathmandu is seen after it hit two helicopters during take-off at Lukla airport, the main gateway to the Everest region. A small plane veered off the runway and hit two helicopters while taking off near Mount Everest on April 14, killing three people and injuring three, officials said. STR / AFP
Hence, it is clear that the viral image is old.
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