Old images falsely linked to recent visuals from Iranian President’s helicopter crash

According to sources, these images depict the site of a training plane crash in Iran and it dates back to 2020.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian have died in a helicopter crash. The helicopter carrying the officials crashed in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province, near the border with Azerbaijan, under circumstances that remain unclear. The crash occurred in the Dizmar forest between the cities of Varzaqan and Jolfa, and initial reports suggested that the helicopter was forced to make a hard landing due to bad weather and fog.
Following this incident, many posts and videos are going viral on social media. One such image is now going viral in which a plane crashes in a wrecked state. It is claimed to be from the Iranian President’s helicopter crash site.

But Fact Crescendo found the viral claim false. Let’s check the truth.

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Fact Check- 

We started our investigation by running a reverse image search on Google, and whose results led us to the Twitter handle named ‘@Iranian_RCS’. The image showed the plane with the same number 1136 which was also seen in the viral image. Second image also matches with it. It was uploaded on 22 April 2020 and its caption mentioned that a airplane flying from Bisheh Koila to Tehran crashed around Salman Shahr. The tragic incident led to the death of the pilot and co-pilot.

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Upon further search we found the same viral images were published by Tehran based Rokna Press on 22 April 2020 with a caption “The first images of the crash of the police plane in the Swan Motel” The report states, “According to the Rukna accident group, a police training plane crashed in the forests of Mazandaran”.

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Thus, it is clear that the viral images are old do not show the Iranian President’s helicopter crash.

Conclusion-

Fact Crescendo found the viral claim made along with the images to be False. According to sources, these images depict the site of a training plane crash in Iran and it dates back to 2020.