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VRTNWSDisasters & emergencies

Dit is een beeld van het vermiste vliegtuig van vlucht MH370 van Malaysia Airlines.

Publisher’s rating: Onwaar

The claim concerns a picture circulating on social media that was said to show the wreck of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which disappeared in 2014. VRTNWS reports that the aircraft has not been found; the image instead shows a different plane deliberately placed on the seabed in Jordan’s Red Sea in 2019 to encourage marine life. The dive center in Aqaba associated with the footage described it as a scrapped aircraft that had previously been at the local airport and said it was placed in an area without coral to encourage marine life to return. VRTNWS says it used a reverse image search with Google Lens to trace the picture to a video from Deep Blue Dive Center. It also reports that the dive center itself identified the plane and its purpose. The article distinguishes the image from the actual MH370 search: the flight left Kuala Lumpur for Beijing on March 8, 2014, and debris has been found, but not the complete aircraft. Those details support the conclusion that the image does not depict MH370.