Was a video from the recent Pakistan plane crash shared on social media?

May 27, 2020 Sai Keerthi

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A viral video is doing rounds on social media that apparently shows footage from inside the flight PK 8303 during the last moments of its passengers before the flight crashed on May 22, 2020. The video can be viewed here and screenshots of the same are as follows:

Facebook

The video was shared with caption insinuating that it showed footage from before the plane crash.

Twitter

The horrific footage of PIA passenger jet that crushed along with 90 passengers in #Pakistan. pic.twitter.com/SZaVl8EwP2

— Salman khursheed (@Salman64427215) May 22, 2020

Truth

A Google Reverse Image search of keyframes directed the image to a video that was posted in September 2019. This video showed moments before a bus accident near Kat Momin in Sarghoda district, Punjab, Pakistan. This viral clip was taken from a YouTube video posted under the caption, “CCTV footage of Kot Momin bus accident”. The video can be found here and a screenshot of the same is as follows:

The video as obtained from YouTube shows the time stamp to be the date of the accident. When this is compared to the viral video, it was seen that the date was striked out using a white mark.

Original Video

Viral Video

A simple search on Twitter with key words, “Kot Momin bus”, showed a tweet from Fast News which is as follows:

#Lahore SE #Peshawar JANAY WALI BUS KOT MOMIN K KAREEB ULAT GAI.
4 MUSAFIR JANBAHAQ.
MUTADID ZAKHMI.
5:30PM#FastNews #News #PK pic.twitter.com/g2NhEFzaWV

— FAST NEWS (@FASTNEWSKHI007) September 28, 2019

The images included in the tweet when compared with that of the ones obtained from the viral video shows that the seat upholstery is the same in boat which concludes the fact that the video is not from the flight that recently crashed but that from a bus accident last year.