New Details Expose Misinformation in CDF Ogolla Aircraft Accident.
New Details Expose Misinformation in CDF Ogolla Aircraft Accident: Agence France-Presse (AFP), a French international news company and a global fack checker on Wednesday clarified a trending image of a helicopter that is believed to have killed the Late Kenya’s Chief of Defence Forces, General Francis Ogolla.
According to AFP, social media users mistook a Russian military chopper for another identical aircraft that crashed while carrying military officers in the Sindar area of Elgeyo Marakwet.
In the misinterpreted video, a military chopper could be seen airborne and continuously making rounds within a specific area before flying away.
According to the France news agency, the alleged mistaken chopper belonged to the Russian military, Russian Ka-52 attack.
The video of the mistaken aircraft was first uploaded on social media two weeks before the death of CDF Ogolla.
It was first uploaded on Instagram by a user on March 31, 2024, with a caption reading: “Russian Air Force Ka-52 Alligator firing unguided rockets in the ballistic trajectory, somewhere in Ukraine.”
The video was also posted on TikTok on April 18, 2024, and has been shared more than 3,300 times on the social media platform.
The scrutiny revealed that the exact chopper that crashed at Elgeyo Marakwet and subsequently killed the CDF was a Bell UH-1H Huey II helicopter.
Bell UH-1H Huey II helicopter is a multi-functional aircraft that used for various purposes including troop transport.
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