This footage has circulated online since 2019 in reports about a bus crash in Pakistan
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- Published on June 1, 2020 at 03:56
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- By AFP Pakistan
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The video was published here on Facebook on May 23, 2020, one day after a PIA plane crashed in a residential area in Karachi, killing almost one hundred people, according to this AFP report.
The footage has been viewed more than 1.1 million times and shared more than 17,000 times.
The post’s Urdu-language caption translates to English as: “Interior views of the crashed plane”.
The video was also shared here, here, here, here, here and here on Facebook alongside a similar claim.
The claim is false; the footage has circulated online since at least October 2019, months before the May 2020 plane crash in Karachi.
A closer examination of the video in the misleading posts found a timestamp at its 24-second mark. The timestamp reads in part: “2019-09-28”.
A combined reverse image search and keyword search found this YouTube video published on October 1, 2019, titled: "Fasial movers bus accident on motorway".
The video's description reads: “Faisal movers bus Accident”.
Faisal Movers is a transport company based in Lahore, Pakistan.
Below is a screenshot comparison of the video in the misleading post (L) and the YouTube video (R) :
AFP also found the video published here on the Facebook page of the Pakistani news website Dekhty Raho TV in October 2019 along the description: “Dangerous accident of Faisal Movers bus at Moterway Lahore-Islamabad”.
It was also shared on several other Pakistan-based Facebook pages here, here and here in October 2019, with a similar description that states the video shows a bus crash in Pakistan.
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