Hyderabad, June 13 -- A KidZania advert on the front page of the Mid-Day newspaper on June 12 raised the eyebrows of social media users for bearing an uncanny resemblance to the AI Flight 171 that crashed minutes after takeoff in Ahmedabad on Thursday, June 12.

Published in newspapers mere hours before the tragedy occurred, the full-size advert promoted KidZania's Father's Day weekend. However, it features an Air India plane poking strangely out of the side of a building in the background. The unnatural coincidence with yesterday's horrific events led to online viewers theorising about the connection of the mishap with a larger conspiracy, straight out of an action movie.

The Mid-Day newspaper is a popular daily in Gujarat as well, publ...