A video showing people chanting “Allahu Akbar” inside an airplane is doing the rounds on social media. Many users claim that it captures moments from Air India Flight AI-171 just before it crashed in Ahmedabad, shortly after take-off.
An Instagram user posted the video with a caption: Big accident 242 people died 😭😭😢😢🤔💯💯💯
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FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the claim and found it to be false.
Putting the video keyframes through Reverse Image Search, the NM team identified an X post, dated September 25, 2024, carrying the same video. According to the post, the visuals show an Air Algérie flight bound for Istanbul turning back an hour after take-off due to a technical glitch, which caused panic among passengers and led to chants of “Allahu Akbar’ inside the plane.
انتشرت مقاطع فيديو على وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي تظهر عودة طائرة تابعة للخطوط الجوية الجزائرية كانت في طريقها إلى إسطنبول، وذلك بعد مرور ساعة من الإقلاع نتيجة خلل تقني، ويظهر في المشاهد حالة هلع بين الركاب وأصوات تكبيرات داخل الطائرة. pic.twitter.com/umAZ1xl1Eu
— Sputnik Arabic (@sputnik_ar) September 25, 2024
We also found an Arabic-language report, dated September 24, 2024, confirming that the video depicts panic among Air Algérie passengers after they were informed of a technical glitch during a flight to Istanbul.
Thus, we can conclusively say that the viral video showing the disturbing footage is NOT from inside Air India’s AI-171 flight but Air Algérie during a flight to Istanbul in 2024.
