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India plane crash footage misrepresented as Assad fleeing Syria
As Islamist-led rebels swept into Damascus and Bashar al-Assad fled, some social media users claimed a video showed the ousted Syrian president's plane downed and in flames. But the clip is unrelated to the December 2024 offensive ; the depicted aircraft crashed in India months earlier after a technical issue forced the pilot to eject .
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