After an Air India flight crashed on the afternoon of June 12, Indian media quickly claimed that a Turkish company was responsible for maintaining the aircraft that went down in Ahmedabad. As has happened with much of the outlandish claims made by Indian media, this too has been proven to be false. 

 

On Thursday, an Air India plane headed to London crashed moments after takeoff from Ahmedabad, resulting in the tragic deaths of 241 passengers on board and dozens more on ground.  Remarkably, one passenger survived the crash.

 

Following the accident, Indian social media, including controversial Indian television host Arnab Goswami, began airing the claim that the aircraft had been serviced and maintained under the supervision of Turkish company Turkish Technic.

 

However, a report by Anadolu's Fact-Check has dismissed the claim as baseless.

 

After the crash, misleading videos and images also began circulating on social media in India, falsely linking the aircraft to Turkish Technic. Many of these posts claimed that the company had serviced the ill-fated plane.

 

According to Anadolu's Fact-Check, the aircraft involved in the accident was a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner. In contrast, the images being shared showed Boeing 777 aircraft inside Turkish Technic's maintenance hangars.

 

A post by Turkish Technic on Instagram, dated April 9, confirmed that the company's maintenance agreement with Air India is limited to Boeing 777 aircraft only, which are serviced in Istanbul.

 

Reports also confirmed that the agreement between Air India and Turkish Technic covers only Boeing 777 planes and that there have been no issues reported with the maintenance of those aircraft.