A short clip showing glimpses of an airport made of wooden structures, with greenery inside is being shared on social media.
What are people claiming?: Social media users are sharing the 41-second clip to claim that it shows Arunachal Pradesh's soon to be inaugurated Donyi Polo Airport in Itanagar.
An archiveof this tweet can be seen here.
(Source: Twitter/Screenshot)
(Archives of more claims can be seen here, here, and here.)
What is the truth?: The video shows visuals of Terminal 2 of Bengaluru's Kempegowda International Airport, which was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday, 11 November.
How did we find out?: We divided the video into keyframes on INVid, a video verification tool, and ran reverse image searches on them.
This led us to a LinkedIn post by PM Modi, who shared similar photos mentioning that they showed Terminal 2 of the Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru, Karnataka.
We compared one of the photos to a screenshot from the viral claim, and saw that some structures – like a drum-like installation and hangings – resembled one another.
Both stills show similarities in layout and design.
(Source: Twitter/Altered by The Quint)
Bengaluru Airport's verified Twitter account retweeted a similar post shared by PM Modi's account.
The airport's verifiedaccount retweeted visuals shared by PM Modi.
(Source: Twitter/Screenshot)
We looked for more visuals of the airport and found a video by CNBC-TV 18, which showed stills of the airport and explained its features.
What about the airport in Arunachal Pradesh?: The Donyi Polo Airport in Arunachal Pradesh's Itanagar is set to be inaugurated soon.
The entrance of Itanagar's airport features a bird resembling a giant hornbill – the state's bird – made of bamboo, as seen in this tweet shared by the Airports Authority of India (AAI).
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The Donyi Polo Airportat Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh.
(Source: AAI/Twitter)
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The Donyi Polo Airportat Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh.
(Source: AAI/Twitter)
Conclusion: The video shows the newly inaugurated Terminal 2 of the Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru and not Arunachal Pradesh's Donyi Polo Airport.
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