It has been over a week since the tremendous tragic, Napali’s Yeti Airlines plane crashed. According to the news report from India Today, the rescue team has found 71 bodies. At the time of loss, we found fake claims about this tragedy.
Social Media Posts
There was a viral Facebook video with the caption “Nepal Flight Crash Live #viralvideo” on January 19th, four days after the accident, leading people to assume that it was a video of the recent Nepali crash. And it has over a thousand views so far.
Apart from this video, we found similar videos with the same claim on Facebook.
After looking at the video, you can see that it is a simulation rather than actual footage. Then we found that it was a flight simulation from the “Grand Theft Auto V” game.
FACT-CHECK
We began our investigation by using the reverse image search feature. We found that the keyframes in the footage visually matched the flight simulation in GTA 5.
As we said, the game automatically popped up as a suggestion.
Now, let’s compare the claimed videos with the gameplay.
(source: Reddit)
(Source: Reddit)
Moreover, the sea in the claiming videos matches the Alamo Sea in GTA 5.
Grand Theft Auto V (GTA 5) is famous for its physical engine, rendering real-world landscapes and gameplay for players’ immersive experience.
A simulation video of an emergency landing uploaded around one year ago to YouTube can be watched below. This video might have been used to create the above viral Facebook videos.
CONCLUSION – The videos above claimed to be the Nepali Crash were not from actual footage. Instead, they are airplane simulation videos from GTA 5’s gameplay and related simulation videos.
Title: Airplane Simulation Videos from GTA 5 were Falsely claimed as the Nepali Crash Videos
Fact Check By: Cielito WangResult: False
