Why Is Korean Air Featured?... CNN Uses Wrong Thumbnail for Japan Airport Fire

Replace Japan Airlines passenger plane photo with Korean Air passenger plane
Currently edited to an image of a Japanese passenger plane engulfed in flames

CNN's India channel uploaded a live video of the Japan Airlines (JAL) passenger plane collision accident at Haneda Airport, Japan, on YouTube, using a thumbnail of a Korean Air passenger plane, but later corrected it. On the 2nd, CNN's India channel 'CNN News18' live-streamed the scene of the JAL passenger plane accident on its YouTube channel. The channel has 6.27 million subscribers.

CNN's India channel uploaded a live video on YouTube about the Japan Airlines (JAL) passenger plane collision accident at Haneda Airport in Japan, using a Korean Air passenger plane as the thumbnail, but later corrected it.
[Photo by CNN News YouTube Channel]

The issue was that the thumbnail of the video uploaded at the time under the title 'Fire on Japanese Aircraft' was a photo of a Korean Air passenger plane. This photo was from 2016 when a fire broke out in the engine of a Korean Air passenger plane preparing for takeoff at Haneda Airport, causing passengers to evacuate. The thumbnail of the video has now been changed to an image of the Japanese passenger plane engulfed in flames.

On the 31st of last month, the French news channel LCI reported on the tense relations between North and South Korea, sparking controversy by using an unidentified image that inserted the Japanese Rising Sun flag into the four trigrams of Geon, Gon, Gam, and Ri instead of the Taegeukgi.
[Photo by Channel LCI]

This is not the first time a foreign media outlet has used an incorrect photo. Earlier, on the 31st of last month, the French news channel LCI caused controversy by using an unidentified image that inserted the Japanese flag into the four trigrams of Geon, Gon, Gam, and Ri instead of the Taegeukgi while reporting on the tense relations between North and South Korea. As the controversy spread, on the 3rd, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated, "The Embassy of the Republic of Korea in France lodged a stern protest against the broadcaster's Taegeukgi error," and "The broadcaster expressed regret and deleted the related video."

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