The truth of a video of a Moroccan plane about to crash
Pages and accounts on social media circulated a video clip that was said to show panic among passengers on board a Moroccan plane that was about to crash.
However, this claim is not true, as the video consists of two clips, the first showing an Irish plane being exposed to turbulence, while the second is just a simulation.
The circulating video consists of two clips.
The first shows a scene from inside an airplane in which the voices of the passengers are loud as they chant the phrases of shahada.
As for the second, it shows a scene of a plane in the air - bearing the marking of the Moroccan airline - and it almost falls into the sea before it can return to land and land on an airport runway.
The installation of the two clips together suggests that they depict one accident involving a Moroccan plane.
The publishers of the video, which has garnered two million views from this page alone, said that the scenes show the success of the captain of a Moroccan plane in avoiding a "disaster".
But the scenes do not document a plane that almost fell into the sea.
One of the suspicious elements in the first clip is the appearance of yellow and blue seats, which are the two colors approved by the Irish company "Ryan Air", while the allegations speak of a Moroccan plane.
In light of this, he directed the search, using keywords such as "Moroccan Ryanair accident," to the same video clip posted on YouTube in 2020.
The video was published at the time as showing a state of fear in a plane belonging to the Irish company that went through turbulence.
At that time, a Ryanair plane heading to Brussels from Oujda Airport (eastern Morocco) experienced severe turbulence, according to what was reported by Arab media, but this did not affect its safety.
As for the second video, in which a plane bearing the Moroccan airline logo appears, flying in the sky and approaching sea water, it is similar to many clips circulating on the Internet of electronic simulation of flights.
Subsequently, a Lebanese skipper confirmed to "Agence France Presse" after viewing the video that he was not depicting a real trip.
"This video is just a simulation," said the pilot, who asked not to be named, referring to technical elements that confirm this, including the speed of the plane's movement.
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