“This video showing a pilot inviting his mother on board and making an emotional announcement is from the Air India Flight AI-171 that crashed in Ahmedabad.”
Social media posts
Claim dated 13 Jun 2025.
FACTLY rated thisFALSE
What FACTLY found
The viral video features pilot Aswath Pushpan and was originally posted in March 2025, several weeks before the Ahmedabad flight crash. It has no connection to the incident, as the pilots of the crashed Air India Flight AI-171 were identified as Captain Sumeet Sabharwal and First Officer Clive Kundar.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 13 June 2025. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 17 June 2025, 4 days later. Its rating was “FALSE”.
Where the claim appeared
- Facebook posthttps://www.facebook.com/reel/2584276825297605
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