🇹🇭 Photo shows Thai Airways advert from 1968 -- not 'elephant towing plane at Thai airport'
"The advertising campaign that went viral during Thai Airways' early years. P.S. the elephant was not used to tow the aeroplane," reads the Thai-language tweet.Below is a screenshot comparison of the photo in the misleading Facebook post and the image shared on Twitter in 2016 :
Thai Airways told AFP that the photo was from an advertising campaign for the airline from 1968 and that the elephant was not really pulling the plane.
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