[Python] Is OWNDATA a false negative in this case?

I've been testing some operations in numpy to get a better grasp of what copy and view are. Then I ran into the following code:

import numpy as np

arr = np.array([[1,2,7],[3,4,9],[5,6,0]])

sliced_arr = arr[:,0:2]

reshaped = sliced_arr.reshape(6,)

print(reshaped.flags)
print(reshaped.base is arr)
reshaped[0] = 100

print(reshaped)
print(arr)


Output:

C_CONTIGUOUS : True
F_CONTIGUOUS : True
OWNDATA : False
WRITEABLE : True
ALIGNED : True
WRITEBACKIFCOPY : False

False
[100 2 3 4 5 6]
[[1 2 7]
[3 4 9]
[5 6 0]]


Which shows that reshaped behaves like a copy given it doesn't modify arr. How is it possible reshaped not to be a view of arr, if sliced_arr is a view of arr? Is that OWNDATA a false negative here? I would like to know what is going on under the hood in this case.

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