On May 21, 2024, many media and Telegram channels illustrated the news about the Singapore Airlines flight, which ended up in the strong turbulence zone, the videos allegedly shot in the liner salon. We checked the reliability of these records.

May 21 at 13:00 Moscow time Singapore Airlines reported About an unplanned landing in Bangkok a plane flying from London to Singapore. According to the carrier, the liner fell into the zone of strong turbulence, one person died (as Writes BBC, we are talking about the 73-year-old subject of Great Britain). In total, there were 211 passengers and 18 crew members on board; Four hours after landing in Bangkok, the company reported About 30 victims who were hospitalized.

Illustrating this news, some media used a video allegedly shot in the cabin of Boeing, who was heading to Singapore. The first video lasts 18 seconds, it was removed by a passenger sitting at the window, and in the frame - mainly his neighbors in the row. In the second entry, lasting 36 seconds, it is captured where most of the cabin.

Either one, or at once both videos in their social networks or on their sites published, for example, Russian RTVI, "Komsomolskaya Truth" RT, "Notebook" And "New news", As well as Ukrainian UNIAN And "24th channel". Among the telegram channels that spread video-“Operation Z: Warrixes of Russian Spring"(358,000 views at the time of writing this analysis), Shot (285,000), "Media Russia not Moscow"(131 000),"Zlaya Prof"(104 000), Kosti (99,000), Voblya (97 000), "Militarist"(67 000) and"Mishovets Yegor"(62 000).

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The first thing that catches the eye is the discrepancy between the two videos. In one, the salon is illuminated by natural light through the portholes, in the other, artificial lighting is turned on. There are no screens on the backs of the chairs from the first video, on some seats from the second - there are.

With the help of a reverse search for stop-frames, it was “verified” that a 17-second video, at the end of which a woman squeezes her hands in prayer, was shot back in June 2019. Then, five years ago, the airline ALK, heading from Protina to Basel, got into the turbulence zone. The plane landed at the destination, where ten people on board were hospitalized. One of them was the husband of the author of the video of Bashi Miris. She Published The full 40-second version of the video on the StoryFul platform, on the same day, many major media fragments used, such as television channels ABC And Sky News.

On the second video, which was dispersed against the background of an emergency landing in Bangkok, the events of August 2023 are captured. Using the same method as in the previous case, we found a fragment of this video on site The German television channel N-TV-the signature indicates that the plane was heading from Alikante to Mallorca. It is specified that the board fell into a storm, which then fell on the Balearian islands. How Indicates Newsweek, the original video posted on her Instagram page a passenger named Estela Orts Martinez, and the aircraft after entering the turbulence zone was forced to return to the departure point.

Visually evaluate what actually happened on board the Singapore Airlines liner, you can by pictures In the photo bank of the Reuters agency. On the floor of the aircraft, teapots, trays, bottles and food are scattered, part of the cabin of the cabin is torn, the chairs are damaged.

It should be noted that some large media and Telegram channels that used the old videos in the news about the events of May 2024, either deleted them, or added to the text the news of clarification that the videos are not related to the events around the aircraft that was sitting in Bangkok. So did, in particular, Mash, Readovka, TV channel "Star" And Astra.

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