Originally Posted by BOAC
I guess we will never separate fact from fiction here, but post #25 intrigues me. It SUGGESTS that one of the FR a/c actually made an approach at LEMD and went round, which adds a little missing flavour to the FR press release.
RYR9VR and RYR5389 (two veryfied maydays), didn't shoot any approach
From FlightRadar 24 i can see RYR5996 waiting around 10/15 min East of MAD, approach an then divert to ALC