Hours after a military aircraft carrying Ibrahim Attahiru, the deceased Chief of Army Staff (COAS) and other military personnel crashed, a trending video surfaced on social media with claims that two persons flew out of the plane apparently with parachute.

Mr Attahiru and other occupants of the plane died on Friday after landing on the run way of the Kaduna international airport. Military authorities hastily concluded that the air accident was caused by a bad weather, though there was heavy downpour.

In the trending clip, a middle-aged man, apparently granting an interview, claimed to have seen two persons jump out of the aircraft with parachute and was out of his sight in a short while

He was standing in a bush which, apparently, is a crash site judging by some debris of a plane sighted around him.

Nigerians without verifying the source of the video clip began circulating it as emanating from the accident which occurred Friday evening.

A former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, who also reacted called for investigation into what transpired, suggesting that the departed personnel might have been assassinated.

At close look at the trending video clip one would notice the watermark of Voice TV Nigeria. When TODAY POLITICS probed further, it was discovered that the clip from which the trending part was extracted from dates back to September 2018.

The multimedia channel at the time of uploading it said it was a video clip of a crashed military jet in Abuja.

The six minutes twenty five seconds clip began by capturing the then crashed aircraft hovering around a vicinity.

Thereafter, the edited clip showed locals thronging to the accident scene before the part where the middle-aged man narrated what he allegedly saw which is being circulated today as coming from the Kaduna crash site.

The original video clip is reproduced below.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfH1kWj8gEs

CONCLUSION: No recent evidence to back up the claim that two persons flew out of the crashed aircraft conveying the military personnel to Kaduna at the weekend.

VERDICT: The claim is false.

Source: https://todaypoliticsng.com/fact-check-did-two-persons-fly-out-of-crashed-aircraft-conveying-attahiru-onboard/

Like play like play breeze go blow and the fowl yansh go open... Let me just reserve my remaining comment.

Another lie busted.

I said it was impossible for any extra soul to be on that plane and I was right

FarahAideed:
I said it was impossible for any extra soul to be on that plane and I was right

Smart guy!

@OP... If this video is eyewitness video of the plane crash that killed COAS, then it was actually two planes that collided and mayb those men the villagers spotted coming down with a parachute mayb from the other plan.

In the video, the villagers said two planes collided and they had to bring the wreckage of the other to this crash site. Probably, the second plane is a small plane that allowed it's pilot to eject with a parachute.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfH1kWj8gEs

But am sure this is an old video, as the crash of yesterday happened with the vicinity of the airport.

YouTube channels hungry for views

At close look at the trending video clip one would notice the watermark of Voice TV Nigeria. When TODAY POLITICS probed further, it was discovered that the clip from which the trending part was extracted from dates back to September 2018.

The multimedia channel at the time of uploading it said it was a video clip of a crashed military jet in Abuja.

The six minutes twenty five seconds clip began by capturing the then crashed aircraft hovering around a vicinity.

I am tired of fake news.

At the end of the day, the APC governemnt would use the evidence of this fake news to pass repressive laws on social media...and we all suffer.

Nigerians

lalasticlala

BigSarah:
YouTube channels hungry for views

In fact in a sane country youtube won’t break the news. News agencies would.

But in Nigeria news agencies need to wait for government approval to cover any event

You are all mad

Rich4god:
@OP... If this video is eyewitness video of the plane crash that killed COAS, then it was actually two planes that collided and mayb those men the villagers spotted coming down with a parachute mayb from the other plan.

In the video, the villagers said two planes collided and they had to bring the wreckage of the other to this crash site. Probably, the second plane is a small plane that allowed it's pilot to eject with a parachute.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfH1kWj8gEs

But am sure this is an old video, as the crash of yesterday happened with the vicinity of the airport.

That was the crash of Two Chengdu J7s that collided during a synchrony manuever training preparation for some govt event then one of the planes crew had their ejection seats deployed and survived then ..that's what the villagers saw

deantimes:


Source: https://todaypoliticsng.com/fact-check-did-two-persons-fly-out-of-crashed-aircraft-conveying-attahiru-onboard/

Some wicked people are trying hard to set Nigeria ablaze with fake news

naija my foot

the truth will always prevail.



God bless Nigeria

Some people are just cooking lies like food

Mabizeka:
God of Biafra never disappoints

Shut up.
Just shut up.

Stop attracting problems for your people.

Mabizeka:
Buhari is next

... Many have wished him DEATH.... but they died instead and he is still Alive

Mabizeka:
God of Biafra never disappoints

Not at all. He takes you when your time is up. That was why He took Nnamdi Kanu's parents without recourse to IPOB shenanigans

Fly emirates

CSTRR:

Shut up.
Just shut up.

Stop attracting problems for your people.

Shut up you punk