If you only have a few seconds, read these lines:
- An image of a helicopter is circulating on social media along with the following text: “Iranian media have confirmed that President Raisi’s helicopter crashed and subsequently caught fire. “There were no survivors.”
- But the photo does not correspond to the accident on May 19 in which the president of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, died, since the piece is from 2020.
- The accident portrayed in that photograph occurred west of the province of Mazandaran, in Iran, and was reported by local media in April of that year.
Circulating on social networks a image in which the remains of a helicopter are seen along with the following text: “Iranian media have confirmed that President Raisi’s helicopter crashed and subsequently caught fire. “There were no survivors.” The publications circulate following the accident in which the president of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, died. Howeverit is false that this photo corresponds to current events.
The image – which went viral in Twitter and Threads– does not correspond to the accident on May 19 in which the Iranian president died. These are photos of an accident that occurred in April 2020 in the Iranian province of Mazandaran.
The misinformation was also verified and denied by fact-checkers from Spain (Damned.es) and India (NewsMeter).
The image is from an accident that occurred in 2020
When doing a Google search, Checked verified that the photo was published in 2020, before the accident in which the president of Iran died.
On April 24, 2020, an account of public said images along with the text: “A police training plane crashed on Wednesday in northern #Iran, killing two police officers on board. Police say poor weather conditions caused the accident. The plane crashed on Wednesday afternoon near the Ghoo Forest Motel, west of Mazandaran province.#plane #accident.”
The accident referred to by the user of Jahannews in April 2020 and reported that a training plane flying from Bisheh Kolah to Tehran crashed near Mutalaq. The news was also spread in the same period by the portal Rokna.
Furthermore, in the images of the aircraft that crashed in April 2020, it can be seen that the identifying number is 1136, the same as in the photographs that disseminate President Raisi’s accident.
For this, It is false that the photos of the crashed helicopter correspond to the accident in which the president of Iran died. The photos were published in 2020 and correspond to a plane accident that occurred in the Iranian province of Mazandaran.
