“BREAKING NEWS JKIA plane crash,” reads a tweet published on May 31, 2023.
The post includes an image of a plane burning on an airport runway.
The Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA), which lies on the outskirts of Nairobi, is one of Africa’s busiest airports (archived here), handling 6.5 million passengers last year, according to government figures.
Similar claims also circulated in other tweets and on TikTok.
However, the claim that a plane crashed at JKIA is false.
On May 31, 2021, the Kenya Airports Authority tweeted that an aircraft overflying Nairobi “encountered an incident at JKIA”.
Mainstream media then reported a “plane accident at JKIA”.
However, as reported by AFP, KAA released a statement less than an hour after the first tweet clarifying that they had conducted a “full-scale emergency drill” at JKIA.
The drill included a “simulated incident of an aircraft that crushed at the airport (sic)”, according to the statement.
“The primary objective of this exercise was to test and evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of the airport’s emergency response procedures,” it said.
“This incident was entirely simulated...
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