Fact-Check: IAF Plane Crashed in Kishtwar? No, Claim is False!

A video showing smoke engulfing a mountainous area is being shared to claim that an aircraft belonging to the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar region.

(Archives of similar claims can be found here and here.)

Is the claim true?: No, the claim is false as the Indian Air Force and Press Information Bureau’s fact-check unit have debunked this claim, noting that it was false.