FACT CHECK: Plane with drugs not same aircraft used to fly Duterte to The Hague
A claim circulating in the Philippines suggests that an aircraft carrying drugs is the same one used to fly former President Duterte to The Hague. Rappler's fact-check confirms these are two different aircraft.
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