“Photo of a Chinook helicopter deployed to Dharali to transport a JCB excavator after the 5 August 2025 flash floods in Uttarakhand.”
Social media posts
Claim dated 8 Aug 2025.
FACTLY rated thisFALSE
What FACTLY found
This is a digitally edited image. The original photo of the upper half of this image has existed on the internet since at least October 2020. The bottom half of the photo shows the damage at the Dharali market area during the recent (5 August 2025) flash floods.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 8 August 2025. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 11 August 2025, 3 days later. Its rating was “FALSE”.
Where the claim appeared
- Instagram posthttps://www.instagram.com/p/DND8D2PPUQ8/
Links recorded by FACTLY. Some posts may have been deleted since.
This check was done by FACTLY, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.