Fact Check: Did Rafale jet crash near Ambala airbase?
Team Udayavani, Sep 12, 2020, 1:13 PM IST
A viral tweet claiming a Rafale fighter jet has crashed near Ambaba air base is doing rounds in the social media. It also says that a pilot was killed in the accident. The forward was attributed to the Indian Air Force with the twitter handle IAF_MCC.
However, the Press Information Bureau dismissed the reports that a Rafale jet has crashed near the Ambala air base and the government agency termed the news reports as fake.
PIB tweeted, “Claim: An alleged tweet by @IAF_MCC claims that a combat aircraft Rafale jet has crashed near Ambala Airbase due to technical fault and a pilot is martyred
#PIBFactCheck: The image is #Morphed. No such tweet has been posted by IAF. Also, no such incident has taken place #FakeNews,”
Claim:An alleged tweet by @IAF_MCC claims that a combat aircraft Rafale jet has crashed near Ambala Airbase due to technical fault and a pilot is martyred#PIBFactCheck: The image is #Morphed. No such tweet has been posted by IAF. Also, no such incident has taken place#FakeNews pic.twitter.com/QDMbzNHQ7U
— PIB Fact Check (@PIBFactCheck) September 11, 2020
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