Who said 2000 Km? Iberia was flying behind the AF
There are two reports from Spanish pilots being discussed, hence the confusion.
One is from the
pilot of an Air Comet flight from Lima to Lisbon, quoted in The Age, who claims to have seen "an intense flash of white light" in the area where Air France Flight 447 was lost. This is the one whose distance from AF447's position is being questioned.
The other is from the
pilot of an Iberia flight from Rio to Madrid that departed just after AF447, quoted from a personal e-mail of unknown provenance. This flight was obviously much closer, though the pilot mentions deviating quite a bit to avoid the cbs. This pilot reported a lot of calls to AF447 once he was on Dakar's frequency after passing TASIL.