Summary This footage has circulated online since 2019 in reports about a bus crash in Pakistan
(AFP) A video has been viewed more than one million times in multiple Facebook posts alongside a claim it shows a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane that crashed in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi on May 22, 2020. The claim is false; the clip has circulated online since at least October 2019 in reports about a bus accident in Pakistan.
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 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 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) :
