The NAF suggested the crash was due to a plane crash.
The video has been published by the SITE Intelligence Group and is circulating in the Nigerian media.
It is clear that most parts of the video were deliberately manipulated to give the wrong impression that the plane had been shot down “when it was” clearly an air accident, “the NAF said in a statement on Facebook Friday.
The NAF rejected the edited seven and a half minute clip, calling it “false propaganda” and urging Nigerians to “ignore the content of the videos circulating until all investigations into how the crashed plane was completed. , are completed. “
The NAF reported the plane missing on Wednesday, with two pilots on board.
A spokesman told CNN on Thursday afternoon that the jet had been deployed near Borno state in northeastern Nigeria to provide close air support to ground forces, which were under fire from Boko Haram fighters before radar contact was broken.
“The cause of the crash and the whereabouts of the two pilots are not yet known. The pilots are Flight Lieutenant John Abolarinwa and Flight Lieutenant Ebiakpo Chapele,” the NAF said earlier Friday.
In the disputed video, Boko Haram claims to have shot down the Alpha Jet.
The footage shows multiple fighters blasting into the sky before an explosion illuminates the sky as a plane goes up in flames and falls to the ground. The video then cuts to fighters standing around what appears to be the jet’s wreckage.
It then cuts to the aircraft and displays “NAF 475” – the ID number of the missing aircraft. It later shows a charred body.
Separately, the video then shows what appears to be a patch lying on the ground with the name of John Abolarinwa.
CNN cannot independently verify the authenticity of the video.
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Frequent air strikes by the Nigerian military continued to shake up the insurgents – driving them from their hiding places.