Al Jazeera posted a similar clip showing the crash in January 2024, predating the California wildfires by a year.

A year-old clip of a plane crashing near the Chilean city of Talca has resurfaced online in connection to firefighting ...

An illegal drone collided with a plane fighting Los Angeles fires on January 9, but there have been no reports of a crash ...

The article noted that the video was from Chile and not Los Angeles, as claimed. We, then, ran relevant keyword searches and ...

A video circulating on social media with claims it shows a firefighting plane crashing in Los Angeles is actually of an incident in Chile in early 2024.

India Today found that the video has nothing to do with the Los Angeles wildfires. This January 2024 video is from the South American country Chile.

POV video shared on social media showed a firefighter extinguishing flames in a house in Chile, not California, contrary to ...

Using Google Lens, Full Fact traced the video back to a YouTube short posted by Al Jazeera in January 2024, captioned: “Video from Chile shows a small plane exploding as it crashed onto a highway. The ...