NEW DELHI: Pakistan has claimed that it has strike down the Aircraft but it has been proved fake. After falsely claiming to strike down Indian aircraft, Pakistani media aired fake footage of IAF jets being shot down.

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According to the reports, several TV channels ran old crash footage of a MiG and a Hawk aircraft going down as exclusive content. The IAF Hawk jet had gone down near Subarnarekha River at Odisha-Jharkhand border in March 2018 while the MiG-27 fighter aircraft had crashed in a residential area in Rajasthan's Jodhpur in 2016. Another channel aired a video clip of an IAF pilot who survived the twin crash of the Suryakiran aerobatics display team in Bengaluru on February 19.

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The fake footage went viral after the Pakistan government claimed to strike down two IAF jets and arrest one pilot earlier in the day.

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Several people took to social media to report about it.

Soon after, India rejected these claims and said that no aircraft of the Indian Air Force was shot down. An Indian defence source told PTI, "No reports of any IAF jet suffering damage in action by India's adversaries.”