“Photo showing Air India plane to be the sole plane flying above the Russia-Ukraine war zone”
What FACTLY found
ver since Russia announced military operations in Ukraine on 24 February 2022, Ukraine airspace remained closed to all civilian air traffic including India’s. The flight path of Air India’s AI121, which travels from New Delhi to Frankfurt does not go above Ukraine’s airspace since the closure of Ukraine’s airspace. The photo had been shared by a twitter user named QuebecTango on 24 February 2022, who later said the flight path shown was actually a glitch in a flight tracking application. As p...
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 27 February 2022. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 2 March 2022, 3 days later. Its rating was “MISLEADING”.
Where the claim appeared
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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.