“His plane was nearly hit by a drone as it was about to take off from Moldova. That is the reality he lives in.”
The claim was quickly picked up by Norwegian and international media.
But today the story looks rather different.
What actually happened
Moldovan authorities do confirm that a Russian drone violated Moldovan airspace and that the airspace was therefore temporarily closed. Zelensky’s plane was delayed along with two other departures.
But the drone that later crashed and exploded came down about 160 kilometres from Chișinău International Airport, where Zelensky’s plane was.
160 kilometres.
That is a rather special definition of “nearly hit”.
Not the first time
We have seen similar dramatic headlines before. When Ursula von der Leyen’s plane was allegedly subjected to extensive GPS interference in Bulgaria, Flightradar24 data later showed that the flight took only nine minutes longer than planned, and that the aircraft’s transponder reported good GPS signal quality throughout the flight.
When serious incidents are reported, we must be able to expect the prime minister and the media to distinguish between what is actually documented and what sounds most dramatic.
Because 160 kilometres away is not the same as being “nearly hit”. 
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