Mistery 4-prop at Alicante
My wife is adamant that while waiting to taxi at Alicante at about 2120hrs on Sunday the first of February she watched the boarding and engine start of a four-engined propliner which was immediately adjacent to her own Vueling A320 flight. She says it was basically white and thinks it had high-ish wings and that each prop had more than four blades. A man could probably walk beneath the tip of the bottom blade. She watched around thirty passengers (there may have been more that she didn't see, apparently) board on the port side then both starboard engines were started, followed by the port engines. I showed her an Electra (even though I think it's a very very long time since any carried passengers and a long time since Air Atlantique even carried freight in Europe) and then an A400M. Her comments were that it had more than 4 blades per prop. and she didn't remember the squared end of the paddle blades and was confident that there were more than four each but didn't think they were curved (à la Grizzly). Nor did she think that it was as wide-bodied as the A400M.
Are there white A400Ms which carry passengers? When I've seen them at Sevilla, the most striking things are the six curly propellor blades and the tail - and that they're all grey!
What, please, was it, or do I have to get her checked over by a specialist?