Old Video From Yeti Airlines Plane Crash Going Viral As The Recent Plane Crash In Ahmedabad.

Today, on 12 June 2025, an Air India Ahmedabad-London flight crashed shortly after takeoff from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmedabad. Against this backdrop, a video went viral on social media which shows a passenger recording the visual while seated on an aircraft and it shows turbulence at the end. Sharing the video on Facebook, a user wrote, “live video before Ahmedabad ,Gujrat plane crash”

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However, as we investigated, we came to know that the claim was false. The video is old and unrelated to the Ahmedabad plane crash. Here’s the fact check.

Fact Check 

We started our investigation by taking some screenshots from the viral video and conducting a reverse image search. This led us to a report published in the Indian Express on 17 January 2023 containing an image similar to the screenshots from the viral video. According to the report, the video is from the Yeti Airlines plane which crashed in Nepal on 15 January 2023. 

Another report published in the South China Morning Post on 18 January 2023 reads, “Aeroplane passenger Sonu Jaiswal’s 90-second smartphone video began with the aircraft approaching the runway by flying over buildings and green fields over Pokhara, a Nepalese city in the foothills of the Himalayas.

Everything looked normal as Jaiswal’s live stream on Facebook shifted from the picturesque views seen from the plane’s window to fellow passengers who were laughing. Finally, Jaiswal, wearing a yellow jumper, turned the camera to himself and smiled.

Then it happened. The plane suddenly appeared to veer toward its left as Jaiswal’s smartphone briefly captured the cries of passengers. Within seconds the footage turned shaky and recorded the screeching sound of an engine. Towards the end of the video, huge

flames and smoke took over the frame. The Yeti Airlines flight from Kathmandu that plummeted into a gorge on Sunday, killing all 72 on board, was co-piloted by Anju Khatiwada, who had pursued years of pilot training in the United States after her husband died in a 2006 plane crash while flying for the same airline. Her colleagues described her as a skilled pilot who was very motivated.

The deaths of Khatiwada, 44, and Jaiswal, 25, are part of a deadly pattern in Nepal, a country that has seen a series of air crashes over the years, in part due to difficult terrain, bad weather and ageing fleets.

On Tuesday, authorities began returning some identified bodies to family members and said they were sending the ATR 72-500 aircraft’s data recorder to France for analysis to determine what caused the crash.

In India’s Ghazipur city, nearly 430km (270 miles) south of the crash site in Nepal, Jaiswal’s family was distraught and still waiting to identify his body. His father, Rajendra Prasad Jaiswal, had boarded a car to Kathmandu on Monday evening and was expected to reach Nepal’s capital late on Tuesday.

“It’s a tough wait,” said Jaiswal’s brother, Deepak.

The news of Jaiswal’s plane crashing in Pokhara reached his home barely minutes after the accident as news channels began broadcasting images of the aircraft’s mangled wreckage, still burning and billowing thick grey smoke, Deepak said.

Still, the family was not willing to trust the news, holding out hope for his survival.

By Sunday evening, however, it had become clear. Deepak, who confirmed the authenticity of Jaiswal’s live stream, was among the first in his family to watch the video that had since gone viral on the internet…”

Other reports can be seen here and here.

This makes it clear that the viral video is from the Yeti Airlines plane crash on 15 January 2023.

Conclusion 

From our investigation, we can say that the claim is false. The viral video doesn’t show the recent plane crash in Ahmedabad. It shows the Yeti Airlines plane crash in January 2023.