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In 2019, a Summit Air plane crashed at Lukla airport in Nepal during take-off. The viral photo shows that wreckage.
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In 2019, a Summit Air plane crashed at Lukla airport in Nepal during take-off. The viral image shows that incident.
On January 15, a Yeti Airlines passenger plane with 72 people on board crashed near Pokhara, Nepal. At least 68 people died in the tragedy. Reportedly, four men from Uttar Pradesh’s Ghazipur were on that plane and have been confirmed dead. Following this, a photo of a plane’s wreckage has gone viral on social media. Those sharing the image claimed it was the ill-fated Yeti Airlines aircraft.
AFWA's investigation found that while the photo was from Nepal, it was old. In 2019, a Summit Air plane crashed at Lukla airport in Nepal during take-off. The viral photo shows that wreckage.
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A reverse search of the photo led us to various news reports. On September 14, 2019, the photo was published by the Kathmandu Post. The news report was about a Summit Air aircraft which crashed in Lukla airport, Nepal on April 14 that year.
We also found other news reports which contained similar photos. On April 14, 2019, The Himalayan Times and the BBC reported that a Summit Air plane crashed at Lukla airport in Nepal during takeoff. The pilot lost control and the plane skidded on the runway and hit a stationary helicopter. Three people died.
The BBC credited the photo to Agence France-Presse. We then found the photo on AFP whose description noted that it showed a Summit Air Let L-410 Turbolet aircraft bound for Kathmandu that hit two helicopters during take off at Lukla airport, the main gateway to the Everest region. “A small plane veered off the runway and hit two helicopters while taking off near Mount Everest on April 14, killing three people and injuring three,” the description further read.
This was also reported by India Today on April 15, 2019.
We compared the logo visible in the wreckage with Summit Air's official logo and concluded that they were the same.
We then compared the viral image with the AFP one and found several similarities.
Thus, it is clear that the viral image has no connection with the January 15 plane crash in Pokhara, Nepal.
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