The big guys goofed

IN Media Watch Briefs | 31/08/2012

What TV9 Gujarat aired as file footage for IAF helicopter crash in Jamnagar on Thursday was mistaken as live footage by mainstream TV channels like Times Now, Headlines Today, Aaj Tak, India News and ran for almost 20 minutes. This footage was actually a mid-air crash between two choppers in Kuwait in December 2007. Head of TV9 Gujarat said that his channel “in a bid to explain to their viewers what the Jamnagar collision may have looked like picked this old footage and aired it with the disclaimer that it was a file footage (old video)”.

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