In early December 2023, many media and social networks shared a video in which the business jet stuck in snowdrifts in an unnatural position. We checked whether this aircraft really headed for the climatic summit in Dubai.
As a result of heavy snowfall, which fell on Europe on the night of December 2, air communication was paralyzed in Munich. Against the background of the news about the abolition of hundreds of flights on the Internet, a 25-second video diverged, on which you can see a plane overturned on the tail at the airfield. Around the aircraft, workers are fussing, who are trying to return to the natural position a fuselage, frozen to the ground. As stated in numerous publications, in the irony of fate, it was this business jet who was supposed to fly to the global warming summit, which these days are taking place in Dubai.
This information was distributed by publications such as "News","Arguments and facts","Komsomolskaya Truth","Central News Service","Moscow Komsomolets","Business Online", Ukrainian"Channel 24"And the Belarusian TV channel ONT. Among the Telegram channels that have shared the video is “Ax 18+"(1.6 million views at the time of writing this analysis),"Live broadcast"(662 000),"Before everyone else. Well, almost"(657 000),"Ukraine now: news, war, Russia"(400,000), VPSh (356,000), "Dmitry Nicotin"(327 000) and Nexta Live (314,000).
By data The weather services, on the night of December 1 to 2, more than 40 cm of snow fell in Bavaria. As the local news agencies reported, this has not been here since the 1930s. In the most loaded airport of the region - Munich - The delays and cancellations affected 760 flights.
The distribution of a video with a fallen aircraft began in the afternoon of December 2 - largely thanks to the user of the social network X @ryanmaye, whose tweet (published at 17:23 Moscow time) scored more than 2 million views. The author’s signature read: “Private planes in Munich, heading for a conference on global warming in Dubai, literally froze to the take-off and landing strip that turned into a glacier.”
However, if you look into publication The @ViationBrk account, which is referred by @ryanmaye, will not see any mention of the conference in Dubai there, but simply: "Meanwhile in Munich." This blogger, regularly publishing a video with emergency situations in aviation, in turn, indicated @Schoko131 as a video source.
Today is the publication @schoko131 Inaccessiblebut her reposts on other platforms Also, they do not contain any mention of the event in the UAE. Sylvia Kossligk, the owner of the account, indicated her place of residence Hallbermos - a community that directly borders on the Munich airport, and it works, according to the profile in Linkedin, in a medical company serving an air harbor. Therefore, the author of the video could well be the Kossligk herself or one of her friends.
The next day, the senior press secretary of the airport Henner Outing confirmed the publication Merkur.dethat the incident with a collar flooded on the tail really occurred and was caused by heavy snowfall. According to Outing, firefighters leveled the position of the aircraft. At the same time, the representative of the press service found it difficult to tell where this plane was heading, saying only that it was a private board.
On the stop-frames from the video laid out by the Cosslegk and subsequently dispersed on the social network X, you can consider the tail number of the aircraft: OE-Hub.
On the portal FlightAware, which allows you to track the movements of aircraft, there is a side with such a number, and its last landing took place on November 15 just in Munich, where he arrived from Antwerp. The BRJ273 Business Jet Cessna Citation X belongs to the Austrian company BARLINE FLUGGESELLSCHAFT and may be rented Anyone.
"Verified" contacted with Nico SUST, managing charter sales of this company. He confirmed that the emergency situation happened with the BRJ273 (OE-HUB). The amount of damage is currently being specified, but it will take at least a month to restore the ship. According to Yust, the plane was on a permanent parking lot at the Munich airport and had no planned flights. Flights to Dubai did not stand in the schedule of this or any other vessel of the airline in late November-early December.
As for the event in the UAE, indeed, these days in Dubai, the 28th UN conference is held to change the climate (COP28). Global warming is only one of the numerous topics that the summit participants plan to discuss. It has begun It is on November 30, two days before the publication of a viral video, and will last until December 12. At the same time, “verified” in open sources no evidence of being late at COP28 of the delegation or individual participants from Germany or other country due to snowfall in Munich, although this cannot be completely excluded.
Thus, the viral video was really shot in Munich, but the representative of the company that owned the plane denied information about the torn flight to Dubai.
Photo on the cover: screenshots from the video
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