The Video Show Air India Plane’s Final Moments Before Ahmedabad Crash

June 12th, 2025 | No Comments »

Watch out for video claiming to show Air India plane’s final moments before Ahmedabad crash. One video has been circulating after the June 2025 crash actually showed a plane crash in Nepal in 2023.

Claim: A video authentically showed the final moments before India Air Flight AI-171 crashed in Ahmedabad on June 12, 2025.

On June 12, as news emerged that an Air India flight bound for London crashed shortly after takeoff in Ahmedabad, India, a video circulated online claiming to authentically show the final moments before the crash from inside the cabin.

(X user @MonitorX99800)

The video showed a man inside an airplane cabin smiling and showing the view when, suddenly, the phone he was holding appeared to tumble out of his hand. The video ended with flames and smoke visible in the frame.

The video circulated mainly on Facebook and X.

However, the video was miscaptioned. The footage first circulated on Jan. 15, 2023, and shows the final moments before Yeti Airlines Flight 691 crashed in Pokhara, Nepal, killing all 68 passengers and four crew members on board. The footage does not show the inside of the Air India Boeing 787 that crashed on June 12, 2025, while carrying 242 people.

The footage, sourced from a livestream by Sonu Jaiswal who was a passenger on Flight 691, was widely reported as authentic at the time of the Yeti Airlines crash.

Taiwan FactCheck Center published a video geolocating the footage four days after the crash.

Satellite imagery on Google Earth confirmed that the video circulating in June 2025 was recorded in Pokhora, Nepal, not Ahmedabad, India. We used a longer version of the video to replicate Taiwan FactCheck Center’s geolocation.

(Google Earth/X user @manishkhosiya illustration)

A report on the Yeti Airlines crash compiled by Nepal’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Commission found that the plane crashed after pilots mistakenly cut power, leading to an aerodynamic stall — essentially meaning the plane lost lift.

At the time of this writing, rescue work was still ongoing on the ground in Ahmedabad to recover passengers and crew from the Air India Flight AI-171 crash. According to The Associated Press, casualties included at least five people on the ground as the crashing flight hit a medical college. The cause of the crash was under investigation.

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Tags: Boeing, Fact Check, India, miscaptioned, Misrepresented Viral Video, Plane Crash

Video Authentically Shows Bee Gees’ Grandchildren Singing ‘How Deep Is Your Love’?

April 13th, 2025 | No Comments »

Throughout the years, social media users have spread a rumor that a video authentically shows the grandchildren of Grammy Award-winning musical group the Bee Gees singing one of their songs, “How Deep Is Your Love.”

Claim: A video authentically showed the grandchildren of Grammy Award-winning musical group the Bee Gees singing “How Deep Is Your Love.”

A X post from April 9, 2025, that included the video was captioned, “The Bee Gee’s grandsons – WOW!!!!” We found the video previously posted to other social media platforms making the same claim, including also YouTube and TikTok posts from 2023.

@arely_rn this is sooo touching…so many memories. #thebeegees ? original sound – ARELY_RN

However, the video didn’t show the Bee Gees’ grandchildren singing “How Deep Is Your Love.” Rather, it was a cover recording of the song by Ky Baldwin, a singer and actor from Australia.

Baldwin has posted videos of his covers of various songs for years, often using a cloning visual effect like the one used in the one above. For example, he posted a cover of the Backstreet Boys’ “I Want It That Way” to Instagram in July 2023, with the caption, “Cloned a couple more Ky’s for this one #iwantitthatway #backstreetboys #vfx.”

We found the “How Deep Is Your Love” video posted to Baldwin’s TikTok account on Sept. 6, 2023. At the time of this writing, Baldwin’s original post had over 24 million views and didn’t mention anything about the grandchildren of the Bee Gees.

@kybaldwin MAN I’ve been looking forward to this one!! Hope you enjoy my cover of #howdeepisyourlove by the #beegees #cover ? original sound – Ky

We labeled Miscaptioned.

In another video posted to Baldwin’s TikTok account in October 2023, he said he doesn’t have brothers nor was he related to the Bee Gees.

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Does Image Shows Underwater Foundation Of Venice

April 8th, 2025 | No Comments »

An image purporting to show the underwater infrastructure supporting the canal-carved city of Venice, Italy, circulated across social media platforms in March and early April 2025, including Threads, Instagram and Facebook.

Claim: An image accurately depicts the underwater foundation of Venice, Italy

One such post published on X on March 15 had received more than 1.2 million views at the time of this writing:

(@BrianRoemmele/X)

It’s true Venice presented an early architectural challenge, being located in the marshy lagoons of Italy.

Despite Venice’s impressive architectural history, the image at the source of this fact check was generated using artificial intelligence (AI) and doesn’t accurately represent the “Most Serene” city’s underwater landscape.

It’s AI-generated image supposedly shows underwater foundation of Venice:

The online AI-detection tool Hive Moderation determined the image was 99.7% “likely to contain AI-generated or deepfake content.” Google’s AI image detection app similarly determined that the picture was 93% likely to have been “generated by AI.” Both results can be seen in the screenshots below:

The image also displays signs of AI generation when enlarged, such as the unnatural shaping of the wood and how the posts appear to blend into the wooden mounds along the bottom, as shown in the magnified portions below.

(@BrianRoemmele/X)

Similarly, the above-water portion of the image also shows clear indications of having been created using AI. For example, the building on the left appears to have changing patterns, while the dome-shaped construction on the right has warped features that appear to melt into one another.

(@BrianRoemmele/X)

Although the illustration misrepresents what the actual foundations of the city look like, it’s true the substructure of Venice was initially built mainly of wood. The University of Washington Exploration Seminar Engineering Rome covers Roman and Italian engineering over 3,000 years, from ancient Rome to the 21st century. A 2024 article published by the group noted that Venice was constructed largely of large timber poles that were driven into the “Venetian Lagoon’s soft, marshy soil, which lacked load-bearing capacity.” The group added:

The Venetians collected large timber piles from the forests of Croatia and drove them deep into the islands of the lagoon. These piles had varying diameters from 10 to 25 cm and heights from less than 1 m to a maximum of 3.5 m, with around nine piles driven into the ground per square meter. Oak, pine, alder, larch, and elm were the primary woods used for these piles due to their durability and resistance to decay.

In this video, PBS’ science series NOVA also explained this unique construction in a 2022 documentary, “How Venice Was Built on a Swamp.”