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On 18 May 2018, a plane carrying more than 100 people crashed on takeoff from José Martà International Airport in Havana, Cuba. As news outlets started to report details about the incident, photographs purportedly showing the crash appeared and started making their way around social media: These images are old and show various unrelated plane crashes. Here's a better look at these images and some information about where and when they were actually taken: This photograph appears to have been taken by Twitter user Paul Berberian and shows a British Airways plane on fire at an airport in Las Vegas in September 2015. BBC reported at the time: This image was taken by Twitter user Bishnu Sapkota; itshows a US-Bangla Airlines passenger jet at an airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, in March 2018. As CBS reported at the time: Genuine images of the plane that crashed in Havana, Cuba on 18 May 2018 can be glimpsed in this video report from Fox News: Sharing false or outdated images as though they show current tragedies may seem harmless, but at best they muddy the waters and spread misinformation and disinformation for people looking for details; at worst, they spread corrosive propaganda and outright hamper otherwise straightforward investigations.
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