Video shows “airplane crash with helicopter in Washington D.C.”

An American Airlines flight collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter the night of Jan. 29, but a video that garnered more than 216,000 views doesn’t show it. 

“Airplane crash with hilocopter in washington dc,” a Jan. 30 Facebook post said, misspelling “helicopter.”

The post included a video that showed a burning plane crashing on a highway. 

“The plane crashes just won’t end this year,” Tagalog text over the video said.

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Ignoring, for a moment, that the video is clearly a simulation, there are some key differences between the Facebook post’s clip and the deadly Jan. 29 collision. 

The video on Facebook shows a daytime scene with blue skies as the plane careens onto the road. 

The American Airlines flight and military helicopter collided in the dark at 8:47 p.m. over the Potomac River. News organizations, such as CNN, have aired and published footage of the collision, which doesn’t resemble the Facebook post’s scene.

The American Airlines flight was a PSA Airlines Bombardier CRJ700 airplane, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.

The plane in the Facebook video says “Caipira,” the name of a fictional airline in the video game “Grand Theft Auto.” 

We rate claims this video shows the Jan. 29 airplane-helicopter collision False.

PolitiFact Staff Writer Loreben Tuquero contributed to this report.