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A video of a plane crash in New York was falsely shared as a drone crash in New Jersey.
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India Today Fact Check
This video shows an airplane crash in New York, an accident that claimed the life of one person.
In Short
- Governor Phil Murphy seeks answers on New Jersey drone sightings
- Hobby drone crashes in resident's backyard, police confirm
- Viral video misidentified as mysterious drone crash incident
Amid reports of mysterious drones hovering in the sky, Governor of New Jersey Phil Murphy wrote a letter to President Joe Biden on December 13, seeking answers about these alleged sightings. One such drone was reported to have crashed into the backyard of a New Jersey resident, which later turned out to be a “hobby or toy type of drone”, as per police officials. Frustrated residents have warned authorities to take matters into their own hands and shoot down such drones themselves.
An alleged video of a drone crash is now going viral on social media in which a huge white aircraft-like object can be seen in the middle of a street, surrounded by several cars with their sirens on.
A person shared the video on Facebook writing, “Mystery drone down, and now we can find out whose they are and why they are flying in our skies?”
India Today Fact Check, however, found that this video does not show a drone, but a plane crash in New York, which claimed the life of one person.
OUR PROBE
Reverse searching keyframes from the viral video led us to a news report about this incident dated December 13. According to it, a deadly plane crashed along Interstate-684 in Westchester County, New York, on the night of December 12. According to the New York State Police, two people were aboard the plane when it crashed in a patchy area of the highway.
A man reportedly named Jacob Yankele Friedman from New York, lost his life in the crash, while another person, identified as Kalmen Goldberger of Linden, New Jersey, got injured and was admitted to a New York hospital. Both the men present in the two-seat, single-engine airplane were reportedly licensed pilots.
According to the National Transportation Safety Board, the airplane was trying to land at the Westchester County Airport after its engine failed. The highway remained closed for about seven hours for the investigation. The airplane that crashed was a "light sport" aircraft — a small plane that can be flown by people holding a sports pilot certificate.
It is thus, clear that a video of a plane crash on a New York highway was misidentified as a drone crash.
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