{"id":298131,"date":"2025-05-08T21:08:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T15:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=298131"},"modified":"2025-05-09T10:43:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T05:13:51","slug":"april-video-of-pakistani-aircraft-crash-shared-with-false-claims-that-pak-took-down-indian-rafale-jet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/april-video-of-pakistani-aircraft-crash-shared-with-false-claims-that-pak-took-down-indian-rafale-jet\/","title":{"rendered":"April video of Pakistani aircraft crash shared with false claims that Pak took down Indian Rafale jet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amid escalating tensions between India and Pakistan after the Indian armed forces launched a military strike on May 7, a 17-second long video showing a group of people surrounding the crashed remains of an aircraft was viral. Several social media users have shared this with the claim that Pakistan’s defence forces struck down an Indian fighter jet in the vicinity of Bahawalpur. Additionally, they also claimed that a pilot died in the crash.<\/p>\n

These visuals follow India’s “non-escalatory” action against nine sites of “terrorist infrastructure”<\/a> in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. Labelled Operation Sindoor, these strikes come in the aftermath of the April 22 terror attack in Kashmir’s Pahalgam, in which terrorists with alleged links to Pakistan-based outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba, killed 26 civilians.<\/p>\n

X account @CPEC_UPDATE<\/a> posted the viral video of the aircraft remains on May 7 and alleged that the Pakistan forces had downed a Rafale near Bahawalpur and the pilot had been killed. Since this account has been withheld in India, we have added the video below, followed by a screenshot of the X post. (Archive<\/a>)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/video.twimg.com\/amplify_video\/1919992041024421888\/vid\/avc1\/720x1280\/-cKno5XQonb1elDJ.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n

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Note that a Rafale is a fighter aircraft made by France’s Dassault Aviation. It is widely known that India deploys Rafales in the Indian Air Force. Also, in a press briefing on May 7, the Indian armed forces had said that Bahawalpur was one of the areas targeted under Operation Sindoor. At the time this article was written, the above X post had garnered over 450,000 views.<\/span><\/p>\n

The same video was amplified by other X users, such as @yo2thok<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and @chandsitara12<\/a> with similar claims. (Archives: 1<\/a>, 2<\/a>)<\/p>\n