Aircraft reported in flames.....(?)
As we were cruising into MEM after about 2100 for a stop, the FO said that someone on an Enroute Center freq. reported that an aircraft was SEEN going down in flames, near or at Blytheville, AR (flat terrain, with a former SAC base). The weather northeast of MEM was clear.
I hope that someone misunderstood, or that such a plane made a decent emergency landing on a runway or whatever with a quick evac. After we checked in with App. Control on 125.8, that controller was not aware of any further news. The FO said that he caught the news on Center, but not on Guard.
Let's just hope that the event never happened. I doubt that Blytheville has any control tower or runway lights these days, although I read a few years ago that a certain freight airline did some sort of maintenance work there.
Huck or Airbubba and gang-have 'you all' read anything?