A video purporting to be of a British Airways flight from India to London has gone viral, showing garbage over the floor and feces on a toilet seat.
Verified accounts on twitter, including @streetmediatv shared the video and tweeted “British Airways Flight From India To London. Imagine Being Stuck In A Flight This Nasty For 10 Hours” on March 8, 2024. The tweet has received an about 1.5M views on X.
What is the Actual Truth About this Incident? : Fact
In actuality, this is an outdated video with no relevance to India. It was recorded during the first Airbus A330 flight in 2016 from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The video is not from recently and is unrelated to India.
We visited Express, which published an article on this incident on Septmeber 5, 2016 with the headline “Shocking footage shows ‘faeces’ on litter-strewn plane’s toilet seat during ‘first flight’ “.
Check out the Youtube Video:
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ANALYSIS: Misleading
FACT: A video that shows feces on a toilet seat and garbage all over the floor of a plane has been shared, claiming that this is a British Airways Flight from India to London. The fact is that this is an old video and has no connection with India. (1/3) pic.twitter.com/MWRYsIuQpQ
Intent:
Paid propagandists are circulating old videos from different locations claiming to be from India to tarnish the image of India. A video that shows feces on a toilet seat and garbage all over the floor of a plane has been shared, claiming that this is a British Airways Flight from India to London. This video is outdated and has nothing to do with India, it is a truth. In 2016, the first flight of an Airbus A330 from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, was captured on camera. With regard to India, the video is not related.
Conclusion:
Claim : A video has been released showing feces on a toilet seat and garbage on the floor of a plane, claimed to be from a British Airways flight from India to London.
Fact : The fact is that this is an old video and has no connection with India. It was filmed on the first flight of an Airbus A330 from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in 2016. The video is not recent and has nothing to do with India.
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