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Did Saudi man accidentally buy 2 Airbus A350s for son’s birthday? Here’s the truth!

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A screenshot of a news report has now gone viral on social media of a Saudi man accidentally buying two airplanes for his son’s birthday. The screenshot said that the man works in the energy sector and was looking to buy a gift for his son on his birthday who happens to be a big fan of aviation.

The article is from a website called Thin Air Today. It says, ”The man says he called Airbus for the model planes but his lack of english made communication difficult. ”They asked so many questions about interior and exterior, I just though they make very accurate scale models”. The price tag of roughly € 329 million did not seem to bother the man. ”I got lost in currency conversions, I thought it was a bit expensive but still reasonable”. The man payed with his American Express and a few months later, Airbus called to tell the planes are ready for delivery. “They asked me who will fly it, I thought it was a joke.” Apparently, the Saudi then decided to keep one of the planes for himself and gifted the other to his cousin.

We found this on Facebook too;

FACT CHECK

It turns out that the incident or anything close to that never happened. The news story was in fact a piece of satire on an aviation-centric satirical website.

A quick online search revealed the website actually writes only satire stories around current happenings in the world of aviation.

The Thin Air Today website has articles with headlines such as;

-Airbus: Siri will replace autopilot and new cockpit gets 12MP selfie-camera for pilots.

-Flat earth society makes promotional round-the-world trip”.

-Berlin’s new airport to open in summer of 3021.

NewsMobile reached out to ThinAirToday on Facebook. The person responding said:

”We run a satirical news website with no intention to spread “fake news”, just for aviation enthusiast to have fun. Everyone knows you can’t just order a plane over the phone.”

Hence, the above information proves that this gag piece was published on a satirical website and is untrue.

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