Unrelated Image of Chilean Pilot Shared to Claim Israeli Pilot Captured by Iran

This image in unrelated to Iran. It shows Daniela Figueroa Scholz, the first female pilot of the Chilean Navy.

An unrelated image of a Chilean pilot is being falsely shared as Israeli pilot captured by Iran.

(Photo: The Quint)

An image of a female soldier is going viral on social media to claim that it shows she is an Israeli pilot who was recently captured by Iran.

An archive can be seen here here.

(Archives of similar claims can be seen here and here.)

What's the truth?: This image in unrelated to Iran or Israel.

• It shows a pilot of the Chilean Navy, Daniela Figueroa Scholz.

How did we find out the truth?: We performed a reverse image search on the viral image which led us to the same image featured in an article published by Aeroflap, Alert 5 and Dialogo Americas in December 2021.

• The headline read, “Chilean Navy trains the first woman aviator in its history.”

This report was published in 2021.

(Source: Website/screenshot)

• The report further identified the pilot as Lieutenant Daniela Figueroa Scholz who became the first ever woman to become a Naval Aviator in the Chile.

• We also performed a keyword search but found no credible reports confirming that Iran has captured an Israeli pilot named Sarah Ahronot, as mentioned in the claim.

Conclusion: An unrelated image of a Chilean pilot is being falsely shared as Israeli pilot captured by Iran.

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