Fact-Check: Did Pakistan Shoot Down a US Air Force F-35 Jet in New Mexico? No!

Fact-Check: Did Pakistan Shoot Down a US Air Force F-35 Jet in New Mexico? No!

A video showing fire and billowing smoke on a hillside is being shared on social media, where users have claimed that it shows a US Air Force (USAF) F-35 fighter jet which was shot down by the Pakistan Air Force in US' Albuquerque, New Mexico.An archived version of this post can be seen here.At the time of writing this report, this post by X user '@defencealerts' had gathered over six lakh views and more than 8,000 likes.(Archived versions of mo…

Fact Check: 2024 Video Of Jet Crash In New Mexico Falsely Shared As Pakistan Air Force Shooting Down US Fighter Plane

Claim Pakistan Air Force has shot down a US Air Force’s F-35A stealth fighter jet using a Chinese JF-17 aircraft near Albuquerque, New Mexico. The archived version of the post can be seen here, which has clocked 683.2K views so far. Fact Newschecker first ran a keyword search on X for “F-35A shot down”, which led us to the same video uploaded on X on May 29, 2024, stating that a F-35 fighter jet just crashed during take-off at Albuquerque intern…