Does a real video from NewsGuard show that the Democratic Party orchestrated an attempted terrorist attack on FlyDubai Flight FZ1073? No, that's not true: NewsGuard confirmed to Lead Stories that the organization did not make such a repor
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Full Fact→ Video of Flydubai plane isn’t from Israel flight attack incident
A video claiming to show footage from the Flydubai flight where a pilot was reportedly stabbed combines visuals of a different flight flying over Dubai with audio from a 2022 turbulence video.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show FlyDubai Plane Plummeting After September 2026 Incident On Board Tel Aviv Flight — It Is An Azul Brazilian Airlines Plane
Does a video show a FlyDubai plane plummeting after an incident on board a Tel Aviv flight in September 2026? No, that's not true: The clip shows an aircraft operated by Azul Brazilian Airlines, not FlyDubai. Separately, the video predate
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show FlyDubai Flight FZ1073 Passengers Celebrating After Hijacking — It Shows Israeli Basketball Team From 2025
Does a video show passengers of FlyDubai flight FZ1073 to Tel Aviv celebrating on board with a big speaker after the hijacking attempt on Sept. 30, 2026? No, that's not true: The footage is from August 2025 and shows members of the Israel
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Sen. Tommy Tuberville DID Say Many Pilots, Flight Attendants And Air Traffic Controllers Are Part Of The Furry Community
Did Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville say "many airline pilots, flight attendants and air traffic controllers are part of the furry community"? Yes, that's true: The Alabama senator made the remarks about pilots, flight attendants and a
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Shows FAKE Incident Where Flight Attendant Pulls Blanket From Woman Claiming To Have Baby, Revealing Lynx On Plane
Does a video show a real incident where a flight attendant pulls a blanket off a woman who says she has a baby, revealing a lynx on a plane? No, that's not true: The video is a skit created by online content creators. The social media acc
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: FAKE Image of Trump And Musk Eating Panda Express On Air Force One Flight To China Is NOT Real Photo
Does a viral image of U.S. President Donald Trump and tech billionaires Elon Musk, Jensen Huang and Tim Cook, plus money manager Larry Fink eating Panda Express food show a real scene aboard Air Force One en route to China for an official
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: New Orleans Flight Restrictions NOT Associated With "Special Security Reasons" That Closed El Paso Airspace
Was the airspace around New Orleans also shut down in early February, 2026, along with El Paso's closure due to alleged national security concerns? No, that's not true: The Temporary Flight Restriction (TFR) over New Orleans during Mardi
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The White House Did NOT Post Alert That All Flights Are Grounded And National Guard Alerted — Hoax Is Repeated Near-Daily
Did the White House post an alert that all flights were grounded, airspace was restricted and the National Guard had been activated on Feb. 6, 2026? No, that's not true: Nothing on the White House website, the FAA alert history or in real
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Of ‘Operation Metro Freeze’ Deportation Flight From Minnesota Is NOT Real
Does a video titled "Operation Metro Freeze" show real footage of a deportation flight in Minnesota? No, that's not true: AI made that clip. Early versions of it showed a watermark pointing to a specific generative AI tool and it's unlike
Full Fact→ No, the government isn’t limiting Brits to two flights a year
Repeated claims that the government is introducing a policy limiting UK citizens to two flights a year are false.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Flight Logs Do NOT Show Man Who Anonymously Gave $130 Million To Pay Soldiers During Government Shutdown Flew On Jeffrey Epstein’s Lolita Express — Paul Mellon Died In 1999
Do flight logs show that the man who anonymously donated $130 million to pay American soldiers during the October 2025 U.S. government shutdown flew on Jeffrey Epstein's Lolita Express plane? No, that's not true: The flight log page cited
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Delta Did NOT Remove Elderly Man From Flight For Wearing A MAGA Hat — Profane Word
Does a video show Delta Airlines removing an elderly man from a flight because he was wearing a MAGA hat? No, that's not true: The man was wearing a red hat that read "Build Back Better My Ass," not "Make America Great Again." The pilot,
Full Fact→ ‘PM announcement’ of two flight limit is fake
Videos claiming this have been shared on social media recently, but they feature inauthentic audio of Sir Keir Starmer.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show A Real Flight Attendant Trying To Cover A Bikini-Clad Woman On A Real Flight To Miami, Florida — They’re Actors On A Film Set
Does a video showing a flight attendant trying to cover up a bikini-clad woman on a Miami flight depict a real situation? No, that's not true: The clip shows actors. The earliest posts sharing the video mentioned Network Media, LLC, a com
News Facts Network→ DeSantis Launches Deportation Flights from Controversial Alligator Alcatraz Facility
Deportation flights have begun from a remote Florida detention facility dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” with Gov.... The post DeSantis Launches Deportation Flights from Controversial Alligator Alcatraz Facility appeared first on News Facts Network.
PolitiFact→ TikTok posts – No, ICE deportation flights are not dropping people in the ocean
"People tracking the ICE deportation flights have found” the agency is throwing migrants into the middle of the ocean.
Full Fact→ Video of plane’s cabin shows turbulence on a Pakistani flight, not the Air India crash
The footage features in a montage viewed millions of times on Facebook, which also includes an AI-generated image we have previously debunked.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: OLD Video Shows Flight Attendant Singing With ‘Israeli Nationals’ — Clip is From 2023
Did a viral video show passengers singing with a flight attendant waving an Israeli flag, in June 2025? No, that's not true: Posts on social media reused an old recording. The footage had been on the internet since October 2023. The claim
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Photo of Fake Hand in Blue Origin Capsule Comes From 2017 Test Flight, NOT 2025 Mission
Did a photograph show a fake hand on board the crew capsule after an April 14, 2025, Blue Origin space flight, suggesting the whole endeavor was a hoax? No, that's not true: The photograph did show the hand of a mannequin, but it was take
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Scene From Air India Flight Forced to Return To Chicago Due To Clogged Toilets
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
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.”