Aircraft ditched off IoW was optical illusion

[Aero Mad]

Light Aircraft Crash Reported Off Isle Of Wight, Police Say False Alarm (http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/05/12/light-aircraft-crash-reports-isle-wight_n_1511492.html?ref=uk)
Plane crash report 'false alarm' (http://www.iwcp.co.uk/news/news/plane-crash-report-false-alarm-44361.aspx)
'Crashed plane' was actually an optical illusion (From Daily Echo) (http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/9703132._Crashed_plane__was_actually_an_optical_illusion/)

Aircraft reported ditched off The Needles by some tea-drinkers at the Old Battery panoramic cafe. Apparently there was a low-flying white plane and a white fishing boat which was dropping items overboard and they somehow blurred in an illusion. Only possible aircraft landed in Alderney later without incident. Coastguard helicopter and other emergency services who went in search now stood down. As somebody commented on one of the articles: 'next time I'm at The Needles, I must try some of their tea...'

[BOAC]

low-flying white plane and a white fishing boat which was dropping items overboard - I would not be surprised if HM C&E had an interest in that.:rolleyes:

[WASPERNATOR]

Wouldn't be the first time..

There's a lovely old fishing boat now permanently moored in Yarmouth harbour. The skipper is doing 25 for smuggling drugs he recovered from a ship in the channel.

All under the watchful eyes of HMC &E and the police.

You'd think he would have known they can track boats these days.

[Maoraigh1]

Is lobster/prawn/crab potting now illegal in England?

[Sir George Cayley]

Should be! Horrible creatures.

SGC

[hobbit1983]

Comments on the Daily Echo piece (see link above) made me chuckle :)

[o7i]

We're apparently 'wide open' to a terrorist attack from a light aircraft!

The people who post on Daily Echo websites are always calm and understated aren't they

:ugh: