In GhanaFact’s first piece debunking online misinformation peddled about the August 6 crash, we revealed how a photo from an Indian crash was portrayed online as recent, plus how an image and video from a helicopter mishap in 2024 at Bonsukrom were also misleadingly recirculated (read here).
In this installment, we tackle two videos purportedly related to the incident – one about the exact moment the helicopter crashed and the other about a claim that the wife of one of the deceased has granted an interview hours after her husband’s death was confirmed.
In the late hours of August 6, 2025, a Facebook user shared a short video clip allegedly portraying the moment the helicopter, which had 8 persons onboard, crashed into a forest in the Ashanti Region.
A three-second video (archived here) showed the helicopter spinning uncontrollably before crashing, further displaying graphics content from a burning scene of the recently crashed helicopter.
In the caption, the Facebook user wrote: “very unfortunate scene. How the helicopter came down,” with the post gathering 197k views, 108 likes, and 22 comments.
This fact-check will verify whether the video is related to the August 6, 2025, crash in the Adansi Akrofuom District of the Ashanti Region.
To fact-check the claim, GhanaFact first used the InVID Verification tool to break down the video into key frames. This allowed the team to get key snapshots from the video.
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