Does a video clip capture what was happening inside an Air India plane that was forced to return to Chicago on March 5, 2025, due to out-of-order toilets? No, that's not true: The video predates the incident by two months. It started circ
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: We Already Have The Epstein Flight Logs — Since 2015
Did the U.S. Justice Department just release the 1998-2004 flight logs for Jeffrey Epstein's Boeing 727? No, that's not true: We've had then since early 2015 and have embedded copies of the flight logs in several Lead Stories fact checks.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Flight 4819 Pilots Were NOT Both Women
Was Delta Flight 4819, which crashed upon landing in Toronto, piloted by a female-only crew? No, that's not true: Delta referred to the flight captain as "he" in a statement on the company website, and the first officer as "she." In an au
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show Indian Nationals Handcuffed And Chained During Deportation — Guatemala Deportation Flight
Does a photo show handcuffed and chained Indians being deported from the U.S.? No, that's not true: The photo shows people from Guatemala sitting on a military aircraft at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas awaiting deportation to Guatemala. Th
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Trump Administration Did NOT Fire 3,000 Air Traffic Controllers One Week Before Fatal Flight 5342 Collision
Did President Donald Trump fire 3,000 air traffic controllers one week before the fatal American Airlines Flight 5342 collision with a military helicopter? No, that's not true: A White House spokesperson told Lead Stories they had not fir
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Flight Path Map Does NOT Prove Flight 5342 Suddenly Reversed Direction Before Fatal Crash
Does flight path data on a map prove that Flight 5342 suddenly reversed direction before fatally crashing into the Potomac River? No, that's not true: The reversal shown in a clip streamed by global flight tracking service Flightradar24 w
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Helicopter That Collided With Flight AA5342 In DC Area Was NOT Operated By Local Police — It Was Military Helicopter
Was the helicopter involved in the midair collision near Washington, D.C., on January 29, 2025, a police helicopter? No, that's not true: Local police refuted the claim shortly after the crash. According to the U.S. Department of Defense,
Lead Stories→ American Eagle Flight 5342 Crash in Washington DC — What We Know So Far
American Airlines reported a Bombardier CRJ700 plane flying under their regional airline brand American Eagle was involved in an accident over the Potomac river while approaching Reagan Washington National Airport around 9 p.m. local time
PolitiFact→ How do U.S. deportation flights work, what happens when countries refuse to accept them?
In the past few days, a crucial part of Donald Trump’s promise to carry out mass deportations — the deportations — have faced hurdles. We examined how deportation flights work and what happens when countries don’t accept deported migrants.
The Dispatch→ Colombia, Tariffs, and Deportation Flights, Explained
Why the South American ally drew Donald Trump’s wrath.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Biden Administration Did NOT Order LA Airspace ‘Closed To Firefighting Aircraft For Over A Day’ — Temporary Flight Restrictions Are Normal With Air Force One
Did the Biden administration order Los Angeles airspace to be closed "to firefighting aircraft for over a day during his visit" in January 2025? No, that's not true: There was a temporary flight restriction during Biden's visit to the cit
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Clip Does NOT Demonstrate Lack Of G Force In Soyuz MS-09 Launch — Excerpt Shows Lower-G Flight Segment
Does the swinging action of stuffed toys hanging from the ceiling of the Soyuz crew capsule prove that the spacecraft is not really producing the expected G forces during a launch into orbit, suggesting fakery? No, that's not true: A spac
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No, missing ‘Santiago Flight 513’ didn’t land after 35 years with skeletons on board
Santiago Flight 513 “landed after 35 years with 92 skeletons on board!”
PolitiFact→ Threads posts – Americans in Lebanon and Israel had to pay for their own emergency flights out of each country
The U.S. government is offering Americans loans to pay for flights out of Lebanon while they have been flying Israeli citizens out of Israel on chartered flights for a year “on our dime.”
PolitiFact→ Social Media – FEMA, the FAA aren’t ‘blocking’ flights delivering Starlink devices, supplies after Hurricane Helene
FEMA, FAA are “blocking” delivery of Starlink devices and supplies to North Carolina’s hurricane-hit areas.
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – No, FEMA didn’t block hurricane relief flights at South Carolina airport
FEMA “blocked a runway” at a South Carolina airport and “halted” hurricane relief flights.
PolitiFact→ Elon Musk – Unpacking Elon Musk’s False claim about CBP One app, illegal immigration, free flights
With U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s CBP One app, it “takes less than 5 minutes and zero documentation to get approved as an illegal immigrant and be flown to the United States with air tickets paid for by the American taxpayer.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Footage Of Ingenuity Helicopter’s First Flight Showed Mars NOT Algerian Desert Landscape
Does footage of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's first flight actually show the desert landscape of Algeria and not Mars in the background? No, that's not true: Footage of the takeoff and landing of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, posted
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Proof ‘Eight Cancer Doctors’ Aboard Brazil Voepass Flight Vowed To ‘Release Evidence Linking mRNA To Turbo Cancer’ Before Crash
Had doctors aboard the Brazilian airline flight that crashed in August 2024 vowed to release evidence linking mRNA technology to "turbo cancer", as an article by The People's Voice said? No, that's not true: The People's Voice is a websit
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – President Joe Biden didn’t board an empty plane after prisoner swap; he thanked the flight crew
President Joe Biden walked “onto an empty airplane for no reason.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Vanishing In 2014 — It’s Fake
Does satellite imagery show the moments when Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was surrounded by three circling UFOs before suddenly vanishing in a bright flash of light? No, that's not true: This video does not show satellite imagery or the a
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No, missing Malaysian Flight 370 has not returned after 10 years
"Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 returns after 10-year mystery"
PolitiFact→ Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – Border Patrol does not pay for migrants’ flights, despite Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s claim
Border Patrol agents take migrants "to the Yuma airport, put them on a plane to any destination they want. ... And they pay their ticket. And then they get reimbursement from FEMA."
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Space Shuttle Footage With Man’s Profile Does NOT Prove It Was Fake — Astronaut Was Filming From Inside Flight Deck
Does footage showing what appears to be a shadowy profile of a man moving behind what looks to be a small model space shuttle prove that this footage and the entire 1983 Challenger mission was faked? No, that's not true: The astronaut was
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Trump’s Plane Doing High-Speed Pass Over Airport In June 2024 — It’s Flight Simulator Software
Does a video genuinely show former President Donald Trump's plane, Trump Force One, doing a high-speed pass over an airport after the first debate in the 2024 campaign in June 2024, as a post on TikTok claimed? No, that's not true: The vi
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NASA Did NOT Drop Space Capsule From Plane To Fake Return From Outer Space — Test Done Before Manned Flight
Did NASA secretly drop a manned space capsule out of a plane in order to stage a hoax return of astronauts from outer space? No, that's not true: The footage that shows a space capsule sliding out of the back of a C-130 cargo plane was no
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: New-York-To-Florida Flight Did NOT Disappear Then Land 37 Years Later — No Such Missing Flight Was Ever Recorded
Did a passenger flight disappear in 1955 after taking off from New York, only to resurface "37 years later," as a reel on Facebook claimed? No, that's not true: This claim appears to be based on a 1985 hoax published by the U.S. tabloid W
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO ‘Terrifying New Discovery’ By Scientists About Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 Is Revealed In YouTube Video — It’s Clickbait
Did scientists make a "terrifying new discovery" about the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, a mystery that has been unsolved since the plane vanished on March 8, 2014? No, that's not true: At the time of writing on May 29,
Full Fact→ Turbulence video not from Singapore Airlines flight
A video is being shared online alongside reports of “severe turbulence” on a Singapore Airlines flight on which one person died. But the footage is unrelated and dates back to 2019.
PolitiFact→ X posts – Video shows flight turbulence from 2019, not Singapore Airlines flight with one fatality
Video shows turbulence on a Singapore Airlines flight that had one casualty.
PolitiFact→ Rick Scott – Biden isn’t flying migrants to Florida. People pay for their own flights, legally enter the US
“Joe Biden flew hundreds of thousands of illegals into Florida last year.”
Full Fact→ United Airlines flight did not experience a fuel leak
The airline confirmed the flight from Sydney to San Francisco suffered from a hydraulic leak, not a fuel leak.
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Migrants in parole program do not receive free flights to the US
“300,000 illegal immigrants were able to use a simple app to get a free flight to our country.”
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ Fact Focus: Biden falsely accused of secret flights for hundreds of thousands of immigrants
In his victory speech Tuesday, former president Donald Trump echoed false statements on social media that the Biden administration had secretly flown hundreds of thousands of migrants to the United States.
Full Fact→ Sadiq Khan has not signed a ‘WEF treaty’ to ban meat, flights and cars by 2030
An article claims a treaty ‘legally compels’ the city to introduce these restrictions. It doesn’t.
AllSides→ Jimmy Kimmel Is Not on Published Epstein Flight Log
https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-jimmy-kimmel-not-published-epstein-flight-log-1857402 Jimmy Kimmel
PolitiFact→ United Facts of America to feature top-flight voices on elections, AI, vaccines
The stumping and stomping of the 2024 presidential election are here. Amid the rallies, debates and rhetoric, voters are
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Bad day, errant flight? Don’t expect relief at the Salzburg Airport
“The airport in Salzburg, Austria, has a counter for people who flew to Austria instead of Australia.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show A Real Argument Between ‘Trans Person’ And Flight Attendant — It’s A Skit With Actors
Does this video show a real flight attendant and a "trans person" arguing over pronouns on a passenger aircraft? No, that's not true: This video was made by the comedian and content creator Jibrizy. The video is a clip from a longer Jibri
Logically→ Yuval Noah Harari is not a WEF advisor and did not endorse flight bans or lockdowns to combat climate change