The viral Image showing the crash of an Indian Air Force Mi-17 helicopter in Ladakh is an old one. This two years old image is from an IAF chopper crash in Kedarnath, Uttrakhand.
These tweets have misled thousands of people who have retweeted and liked them.
With a simple verification on the Twitter platform, one would be able to figure out that these accounts are fake because the original accounts of these two journalists are verified and have a huge following.
We decided to fact-check these claims as they were from fake accounts. We did a search on the web to find any news articles which reported about a Rafale jet crash and we were unable to find any. However, we did find a clarification posted by the PIB Fact-Check Twitter account which had debunked a similar fake image and news which used a morphed image to make it seem as the IAF had tweeted about the crash and a pilot being martyred.
We did a reverse image search of the images attached in tweets by the fake accounts and found that all the images are from a 2019 Mirage 2000 crash in Bengaluru.
Moreover, the accounts pretending to be Swetha Singh and Sagarika Ghose are deleted now but they had already garnered thousands of retweets and likes.
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