On June 12, as news emerged that an Air India flight bound for London crashed shortly after takeoff in Ahmedabad, India, a video (archived) circulated online claiming to authentically show the final moments before the crash from inside the cabin.
(X user @MonitorX99800)
The video showed a man inside an airplane cabin smiling and showing the view when, suddenly, the phone he was holding appeared to tumble out of his hand. The video ended with flames and smoke visible in the frame.
The video circulated mainly on Facebook (archived) and X (archived).
However, the video was miscaptioned. The footage first circulated on Jan. 15, 2023, and shows the final moments before Yeti Airlines Flight 691 crashed in Pokhara, Nepal, killing all 68 passengers and four crew members on board. The footage does not show the inside of the Air India Boeing 787 that crashed on June 12, 2025, while carrying 242 people.
The footage, sourced from a livestream by Sonu Jaiswal who was a passenger on Flight 691, was widely reported as authentic at the time of the Yeti Airlines crash.
Taiwan FactCheck Center published a video (archived) geolocating the footage four days after the crash.
Satellite imagery on Google Earth confirmed that the video circulating in June 2025 was recorded in Pokhora, Nepal, not Ahmedabad, India. Snopes used a longer version of the video (archived) to replicate Taiwan FactCheck Center's geolocation.
(Google Earth/X user @manishkhosiya/Snopes illustration)
A report on the Yeti Airlines crash compiled by Nepal's Aircraft Accident Investigation Commission found that the plane crashed after pilots mistakenly cut power, leading to an aerodynamic stall — essentially meaning the plane lost lift.
At the time of this writing, rescue work was still ongoing on the ground in Ahmedabad to recover passengers and crew from the Air India Flight AI-171 crash. According to The Associated Press, casualties included at least five people on the ground as the crashing flight hit a medical college. The cause of the crash was under investigation.