{"id":28807,"date":"2021-07-12T18:01:48","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T18:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media.am\/?p=28807"},"modified":"2021-07-12T18:01:48","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T18:01:48","slug":"false-information-armenian-government-aircraft-has-entered-azerbaijani-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/verified\/2021\/07\/12\/28807\/","title":{"rendered":"False Information: Armenian Government Aircraft Has Entered Azerbaijani Territory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Verdict \u2013 False Information<\/p>\n

On June 20, the day of the snap elections in the Republic of Armenia (RA), Facebook user Ruben Galustayn wrote<\/a> that Armenian government aircraft entered the Azerbaijani territory. The post got 231 shares at the time this article was published, news outlets and clickbait websites spread the claim.<\/p>\n

The information was false. The screenshots presented by the user did not depict Armenian government\u2019s plane. Moreover, the Head of the Civil Aviation Committee of Armenia confirmed the plane was in Yerevan on the evening of June 20. Ruben Galustyan later edited his post, removing the word \u201cgovernment\u201d and claiming an Armenian aircraft entered Azerbaijan. He added another screenshot to the post, but neither the new screenshot was showing Armenian plane entering Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n

The Aircraft In the Screenshot Does Not Belong to the Armenian Government<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ruben Galstyan posted three screenshots with the Airbus A319-115(CJ)<\/a> aircraft, flying to Azerbaijan from Tbilisi.<\/p>\n

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However, the aircraft shown on the screenshot doesn\u2019t belong to the Armenian Government. The aircraft owned by the Armenian Government is called Airbus A319-132(CJ) not Airbus A319-115(CJ). The information about, and the pictures of the government aircraft can be found here: link 1<\/a>, link 2<\/a>, link 3<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ruben Galustyan published the post at 5:48 pm. About three hours later, at 9:00 pm, Media.am and Factcheck.ge spoke to the head of the Civil Aviation Committee of Armenia Tatevik Revazyan, who denied the government plane flight to Azerbaijan. Revazyan also sent us photos of RA Government aircraft standing at that time in Yerevan\u2019s Zvartnots Airport.<\/p>\n

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The Yerevan-Tbilisi flight takes around half an hour.<\/a> The Tbilisi-Baku flight takes a bit more than an hour<\/a>\u2024 Given that the plane would need a certain time for landing and departure in each airport, it could not make the Yerevan-Tbilisi-Baku flight and come back between 5:48 pm and 9:00 pm (in around 3 hours).<\/p>\n

Therefore, Galustyan\u2019s claim that the RA Government aircraft had entered the Azerbaijani territory is false.<\/p>\n

We recorded the flight over Armenian, Georgian and Azerbaijani territory on June 20, 12:00-22:00 as shown on FlightRadar24 website. No Yerevan-Tbilisi-Baku flight can be spotted.<\/p>\n