How can I fact check this article?

[SleeplessinSoCal]

https://www.scientistplus.com/en/scientists-stumbled-upon-lost-plane-arctic

I've done a cursory Google search and only find this one dramatic telling from late January.

"Scientists Stumbled Upon a Lost Plane In the Arctic
Jason Pasos
Nature is a formidable force, and despite the groans about the world becoming smaller and smaller, it's actually still a rather large place. It's still very much filled with mystery and things waiting to be discovered. That was the case when a research team leading a science expedition came across the frozen wreckage of a plane and decided to explore the long-lost crash site even further. What they found had remained locked in the icy graveyard for decades, seemingly - at first - untouched by humans. "

[werdna]

1. Is it Captain America? he wonders. nt

[SleeplessinSoCal]

2. Nope!

Dr. Landon, according to this guy Jason Pasos.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

3. "A Hoax".

https://factly.in/dr-landons-so-called-discovery-of-a-planes-wreckage-stuck-in-an-iceberg-is-a-hoax/

I came across this on the X Site while checking out Jupiter's moons photo from Cassini. It reads like clickbait, but I got sucked in, while questioning its authenticity.

[erronis]

4. I'm not getting good vibes from this site - and I read a lot of science journals.

Be skeptical. But that is a good talent for a scientific and inquisitive mind.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

5. I kept thinking "could this be turned into a movie?"

I think that watching "Dateline" sometimes. This wasn't startling, it just kept propelling the story forward. A total waste of a morning's excavation.

I did uncover it as being a Hoax. ^^^

[JoseBalow]

6. The Thing

[TwilightZone]

7. It's fake. The funny thing, though...

is that right below the story is an article about how to tell science from pseudoscience.

Oh, the irony.

All of the pics in the plane story are stock photos. That's usually a pretty good tell.

Edit: it might have been inspired by this story from 2013:

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE9690EG/

[Warpy]

8. A story about finding the plane, identifying it,

finding out if the crew was rescued, and maybe giving some families closure would have been a good story.

Turning it into a stupid ghost story made it rather a bore.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

9. I kept going, doubting it every step of the way.

What is the point? What kind of revenue can be gained?

[Warpy]

10. Some people love nonsense

because they find reality too confusing and painful. This article was for them.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

11. I was grabbed by the image of melting glacier revealing plane.

Turns out it was a made up story. And it was I who fact checked it and discovered it was a Hoax. I gather for ad revenue.

[Warpy]

12. That stuff does happen, although rarely

Planes were lost in WWII and never located, especially in the far north.

Melting glaciers in Canada and Scandinavia have produced treasure troves of finds for archaeologists,

I'm not surprised this was a hoax, they skipped all sorts of information about the origin of the plane, when and under what conditions it went missing, and the status of the crew and launched right into that stupid ghost story. "Clang, clang, clang!" went my own BS detector. Even a partial number on fuselage or tail would have helped the verisimilitude a bit, but I guess they were too dumb to think of that.