Video From Delhi Falsely Shared as One of Building Hit During Air India Crash

The video shows a building which caught fire in Delhi's Dwarka on 10 June.

A video of a building on fire in Delhi's Dwarka has gone viral on social media, where users have incorrectly linked it to the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad.

(Source: X/Altered by The Quint)

A video showing a plume of smoke billowing from a building has gone viral on social media, where users have claimed that it shows visuals of the building that was hit when an Air India plane crashed in Ahmedabad on 12 June.

An archived version of this post can be seen here.

(Source: X (formerly Twitter)/Screenshot)

(Archived versions of more posts sharing this claim can be seen here, here, here, and here.)

Is it true?: No, the video has no connection to the Air India plane crash.

• It shows a building whose top floor was engulfed in flames in Delhi's Dwarka on 10 June.

How do we know?: We carried out a reverse image search on the video using Google Lens, which led us to a Reddit post on the Delhi subreddit.

• The video, shared on 10 June 2025, mentioned that it showed visuals from "Shabad apartment Dwarka."

The video was shared on 10 June, two days before the plane crash.

(Source: Reddit/Screenshot)

• We ran a search using the location as keywords. The results showed us multiple news reports about a fire in sector 13 in Delhi's Dwarka.

• A report by Hindustan Times said that a father and his two sons had lost their lives after the jumped from the top floor of Shabad apartment after the fire broke out.

• Five fire tenders were reportedly rushed to the spot after the cops received a PCR call at 9:58 am on 10 June, additional DCP Dwarka Nishant Gupta was quoted as saying.

• The publication also shared a similar video in an X post on their account.

A report by NDTV said that the fire department had used sky lifts to rescue the ones trapped in the burning building.

• Times of India reported that eleven people were in the house when two family members noticed a fire in the balcony. While eight of them managed to escape using internal staircases, three of them remained trapped in the blaze.

Conclusion: A video from Delhi's Dwarka is being shared to falsely claim that it shows visuals from the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad.

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