What was claimed
A video shows people evacuating an Israeli plane which was targeted at Ben Gurion airport shortly before takeoff.
Our verdict
That’s not what the video shows. The clip was filmed in Denver in July 2025.
Video showing plane evacuation was filmed in Denver, not Israel
A video being shared online with a caption claiming “An Israeli plane was targeted at Ben Gurion Airport just seconds before takeoff” was actually filmed in the United States last year.
The video shows passengers using an emergency slide to leave an American Airlines plane, with flames and smoke emerging from beneath the aircraft.
It was actually filmed in July 2025, and shows passengers evacuating a plane in Denver, Colorado after an aborted take off. The clip was shared by multiple media outlets at the time.
Several airports in the Middle East, including Israel’s Ben Gurion airport, were closed with thousands of flights cancelled after Iran launched retaliatory missile and drone strikes following an attack by the US and Israel on Saturday which killed the country’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Some airports in the region have since resumed limited flights, with large numbers of passengers remaining stranded.
We’ve seen no credible reports of a civilian passenger plane being struck by missiles or drones so far during the conflict.
Join 72,953 people who trust us to check the facts
Sign up to get weekly updates on politics, immigration, health and more.
Subscribe to weekly email newsletters from Full Fact for updates on politics, immigration, health and more. Our fact checks are free to read but not to produce, so you will also get occasional emails about fundraising and other ways you can help. You can unsubscribe at any time. For more information about how we use your data see our Privacy Policy.
We’re fact checking images and videos circulating on social media relating to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.
Before sharing content like this that you see on social media, it’s important to consider whether it comes from a verifiable and trustworthy source. Our Full Fact toolkit can help you do this.
This article is part of our work fact checking potentially false pictures, videos and stories on Facebook. You can read more about this—and find out how to report Facebook content—here. For the purposes of that scheme, we’ve rated this claim as false because this video was filmed in Denver in July 2025.