{"id":1367103,"date":"2022-03-09T13:20:54","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T18:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1367103"},"modified":"2022-03-09T13:20:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T18:20:58","slug":"fact-check-does-this-photo-show-a-russian-su-34-shot-down-over-kyiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-photo-show-a-russian-su-34-shot-down-over-kyiv\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Photo Show A Russian Su-34 Shot Down Over Kyiv?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-does-this-photo-show-a-russian-su-34-shot-down-over-kyiv%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1367103&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/dKoI3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows a Russian Su-34 airplane that was shot down by the Ukrainian military over the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The photo shows a U.S. B-17 bomber that was forced to conduct an emergency landing in Papua New Guinea in 1944 during World War II.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s death toll from the Ukrainian invasion is estimated to be around 2,000 as of March, but possibly higher, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/01\/us\/politics\/russia-ukraine-war-deaths.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New York Times<\/a> reports. Ukrainian forces claimed to have killed more than 12,000 Russian soldiers and downed 48 Russian airplanes and 80 helicopters since the start of the offensive, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/08\/world\/europe\/battlefield-reports-ukraine-russia.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">outlet<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>A black and white <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=127514346498924&#038;id=100452552538437\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">image<\/a> shared on Facebook, which has garnered over 3,300 likes, appears to show a crashed military plane in a wooded area. \u201cSu-34 shot down by Ukrainian Fighter Ace over Kiev,\u201d the post\u2019s caption claims, adding that Russian President Vladimir Putin was \u201csCaReD.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Su-34 is a fourth-generation Russian air force fighter-bomber, first introduced in the 1980s, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militaryfactory.com\/aircraft\/detail.php?aircraft_id=697\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Military Factory<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/02\/24\/fact-check-russian-jet-shot-down-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: No, This Image Does Not Show A Russian Fighter Jet That Was Shot Down In Ukraine)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A reverse image search revealed the picture predates the Russian invasion of Ukraine by several decades. The photo, taken on May 4, 1944, actually shows a downed U.S. B-17 bomber nicknamed, \u201cHarry the Horse,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/pacificwrecks.com\/aircraft\/b-17\/41-24548\/05-04-44\/b17f-force-landed-tadji.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pacific Wrecks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The plane was forced to conduct an emergency landing at Tadji Airfield in Papua New Guinea May 4, 1944, due to low fuel levels, but part of the landing gear collapsed during the landing, causing the plane to skid off the runway and crash near a bomb dump, the <a href=\"https:\/\/pacificwrecks.com\/aircraft\/b-17\/41-24548.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">outlet<\/a> reported. The aircraft was recovered and no one was injured, but the plane was damaged \u201cbeyond repair.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Similar images of the Boeing B-17 bomber can be seen on the New Orleans\u2019 National WWII Museum\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalww2museum.org\/visit\/museum-campus\/us-freedom-pavilion\/warbirds\/b-17e-flying-fortress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a>. Genuine pictures of the Russian Su-34 fighter jet, which is notably different from the B-17, can be found on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.ie\/photos\/sukhoi-su-34-fullback?assettype=image&#038;agreements=ed%3A7788&#038;family=editorial&#038;phrase=Sukhoi%20Su-34%20Fullback&#038;sort=mostpopular\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Getty Images<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time an image of an aircraft has been falsely linked to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. Check Your Fact previously <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/02\/25\/fact-check-ukraine-explosion-russian-airstrike\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">debunked<\/a> an alleged photo of a Russian jet shot down by Ukrainian troops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook purportedly shows a Russian Su-34 airplane that was shot down by the Ukrainian military over the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv.Verdict: False The photo shows a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1367103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1367103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1367103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1367103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1367103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}