{"id":70641,"date":"2020-07-06T20:21:47","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T14:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=70641"},"modified":"2020-07-06T20:21:47","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T14:51:47","slug":"old-video-from-syria-viral-as-indian-helicopter-shot-down-by-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/old-video-from-syria-viral-as-indian-helicopter-shot-down-by-nepal\/","title":{"rendered":"Old video from Syria viral as Indian helicopter shot down by Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"

A social media claim has surfaced that an Indian Air Force helicopter Rudra was shot down by Nepal and a pilot was captured. This has been promoted using a 30-second video, without any audio, that shows a helicopter shot down midair.<\/p>\n

“Regards Nepal: Today, Indian airforces had crossed the border to conduct airstrikes on the Nepal territories. India contacted an airstrike in Belahiya. In the resulting, we’ve shot down one Indian HAL Rudra and captured one Indian pilot. Now We’ll not return pilot to India,” wrote a Twitter user.<\/p>\n

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Regards Nepal: Today, Indian airforces had crossed the border to conduct airstrikes on the Nepal territories. India contacted an airstrike in Belahiya. In the resulting, we’ve shot down one Indian HAL Rudra and captured one Indian pilot. Now We’ll not return pilot to india \ud83d\ude02\ud83e\udd23 pic.twitter.com\/6FjCSRlBOQ<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Murtaza Khalid (@iamurtazakhalid) July 3, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Twitter user @Irmaknepal also posted the viral video, attracting 1,500\u00a0 and retweets and over 50,000 views.<\/p>\n

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Fact-check<\/h4>\n

Alt News performed a reverse image search using InVid, a video verification platform, on Yandex<\/a> that led us to a tweet by Hugo Kaaman that read “Syria”.<\/p>\n

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In 2019, he had posted the same video however with audio in the background. “A Syrian Air Force (SyAAF) helicopter explodes mid-air as it descends after being struck by opposition anti-aircraft fire above Idlib countryside on October 17, 2012. One of the craziest and most iconic videos from the entire Syrian Civil War,<\/span>” read his tweet.<\/p>\n

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A Syrian Air Force (SyAAF) helicopter explodes mid-air as it descends after being struck by opposition anti-aircraft fire above Idlib countryside on October 17, 2012. One of the craziest and most iconic videos from the entire Syrian Civil War pic.twitter.com\/E3AvVRMJzY<\/a><\/p>\n

— Hugo Kaaman (@HKaaman) July 25, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n