- Kobe Bryant died on Sunday in a helicopter accident in the United States.
- Images of a helicopter crashing resurfaced after the announcement of the basketball player's death.
- These images actually show an accident in 2018 in the United Arab Emirates. Four people were killed in the accident.
Has a video showing the crash of the helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant this Sunday been published on social networks? In any case, images showing a device crashing and then igniting have been shared for two days on social networks. They are presented, wrongly, as showing the last moments of the flight which transported the star of the Lakers.
These images were shared on Twitter and YouTube, where a video garnered more than three million views in 48 hours.
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The video does not show the basketball player's accident. A reverse image search links to a video posted on YouTube on January 5, 2019. According to the host, the images show an accident in the United Arab Emirates.
A helicopter accident went well on December 29, 2018 in this country, as confirmed by a dispatch from Reuters. A life-saving appliance struck a zipline in Jebel Jais before crashing to the ground, said The National , an Emirati English-language daily newspaper. The helicopter, an Augusta 139, was carrying four people, two pilots and two passengers, who died in the crash, the BBC said.
Kobe Bryant was traveling in a Sikorsky S-76 B when he lost his life.
An investigation was opened after the accident which claimed the life of the sportsman and eight other people on Sunday, including his daughter Gianna.
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