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News Outlets Share Old Photo of Plane Crash in Nepal as Recent

While the old photo is from Nepal, it was of a crash that took place in 2012.

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An old photo showing a crashed plane with security personnel standing beside it is going viral on social media with a claim that it is a recent visual from the plane crash that happened in Pokhara, Nepal on Sunday, 15 January.

Who shared it?: Asian News International (ANI), a news agency, The Economic Times, DNA, India TV, Mirror Now and India Today and shared this picture along with several social media users.

(Note: Swipe to see other screenshots.)

  • An archive can be seen here.

    (Source: Twitter/Screenshot)

(Similar claims by users can be seen here and here.)

Nepal's recent plane crash: An ATR-72 Yeti Airlines aircraft that took off from Kathmandu International Airport crashed at Nayagaun in Nepal on Sunday.

The truth: This image shows a plane crash that happened in Nepal in 2012.

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How did we find out the truth?: We performed a reverse image search and found images uploaded by the news agency Reuters in 2012 about a plane crash in Nepal.

  • The search led us to Reuters' photo gallery from 28 September 2012.

  • The image's caption read that Nepalese police officers surrounded the wreckage of a Dornier aircraft at the crash site in Nepal's Kathmandu on 28 September 2012.

While the old photo is from Nepal, it was of a crash that took place in 2012.

This image dates back to September 2012.

(Source: Reuters/Screenshot)

The plane that crashed in 2012: A plane en route to Everest carrying seven British and five Chinese passengers on board crashed after taking off from Nepal's Kathmandu airport.

  • This happened on 28 September 2012.

  • A total of 19 people were killed during this accident.

Conclusion: An old photo from a plane crash that happened in Nepal in 2012 is being shared as a recent one.

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