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DeTect: TV channel airs simulation clip as cockpit visuals

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migrator

Chennai

A Malayalam news channel recently aired a video claiming that it showed the cockpit of the ill-fated flight IX-1344, which crashed on Aug 7. Alt News found that the video was not a genuine one but a simulation clip. A keyword search ‘Air India Express flight crash’ takes one to the original video uploaded by YouTube channel ‘MPC Flight Recreations’ on August 7. The description of the video reads, “This is a video simulation with real data of Air India Express flight 1344.”

First published on www.altnews.in

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