Wrote: Fatbardh Dema
Through a short video (18 seconds), it is being claimed that the footage was taken on a Singapore Airlines Boeing 777-300ER aircraft, which on May 21 was hit by severe turbulence, resulting in the death of one person and the injury of many others.
The video was published by a Facebook account named Urim Duka. (see here archived)
What is the truth about this video?
After fact-checking conducted by hibrid.info, it was confirmed that the video does not belong to this event and that it was filmed in 2019, during a flight from Kosovo to Switzerland.
Link to the video material published on Facebook by the "Urim Duka" account:
What did hibrid.info find?
After researching through online search engines, hibrid.info managed to find the same video material published in the English-language medium “Euronews.com”. (see here and here)
In the article published on June 19, 2019 in Euronews, it is stated that the footage was taken by "Mirjeta Shala".
Excerpt from the article published on Euronews.com, translated into Albanian:
A passenger on a flight from Kosovo to Switzerland captured the moment a plane hit a severe pocket of turbulence.
Ten people were injured in the incident aboard an ALK Airlines flight from Pristina to Basel, including a cabin crew member who was thrown to the ceiling.
This video material with the same claim was published on May 21st on X (formerly Twitter) by an account with English-language content "GIDI", which has almost 2 million followers.
In the caption of this content, this account claims that the footage shows the flight from Singapore to London. The footage presented in this video also features the logo of the British television station Sky News. (see here)
Hibrid.info has found the same video published on the Sky News account on X (formerly Twitter), which bears the publication date (June 17, 2019). (see here)
Analyze:
Through a video taken from a Kosovo-Switzerland flight, which experienced turbulence, it was falsely claimed that the footage depicted the turbulence experienced on the London-Singapore flight, where one person lost their life and over 70 others were injured.
Based on its work methodology, hibrid.info assesses this content as "Unverified Content".
Reasoning:
The "Unverified" rating is given to those informative contents that do not provide sufficient information to confirm the claims made in the report, and which could not be verified due to certain circumstances (speed, lack of sources) during the publication of the content.