Crash near the Canary Islands

[Msunduzi]

Heard something oon the news, but no details.

Any info?

[Jack1985]

Plane down near the Canary Islands, unknown aircraft/passengers on-board at this time.

[Capetonian]

Cae un avión al mar frente a la costa de Gran Canaria (http://www.elmundo.es/espana/2014/03/27/53343f04268e3eb8028b457d.html)

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El Servicio de Emergencias de Canarias ha informado de la caída al mar de un avión a dos millas de la costa de Gran Canaria, a la altura de la localidad de Jinámar. Se desconoce el número de pasajeros que iban a bordo.

An aircraft has crashed 2 miles from the coast of GC close to Jinamar. The number of pax on board is not known.

Se desconoce la compañía aérea a la que pertenece el aparato y el número de pasajeros que van a bordo The company to wihch the a/c belongs is not known.

[boredaccountant]

Eyewitness please???

Light aircraft or airliner ?????

[DarkStar]

Emergency Services now saying A/c did not hit the sea......

[Msunduzi]

Thanks, I heard it as I was getting out of the car, didn't stop to listen as its pouring down..........


Doesn't sound good, hopefully the outcome will be good.

[Capvermell]

BBC Radio 5 Live has also given a News Flash around 3.17pm reporting an aircraft has crashed in to the sea en route to or from the Canary Islands. No further details of any kind as yet.

[2dPilot]

Sky saying "Vessel Mistaken for Plane"

[GobonaStick]

Canaries emergency services being quoted as saying false alarm.

[Vspec]

Sky News saying its a mistake Not a crash....

[torquemada60]

It is not a plane crash. Apparently a vessel in some kind of distress. Thanks God!

[Halcyon Days]

Sky now saying its actually a vessel of some sort-not an aircraft.
Crazy reporting practice to release this sort of info before any facts known?
Must have been seriously worrying for anyone having family/crew heading that way!

[fulham fan]

it's a boat!

[Msunduzi]

False alarm according to the BBC, thankfully

[boredaccountant]

Reuters CONFIRM FALSE ALARM.

A shipping vessel was mistaken for an aircraft in the sea

[coldair]

Idiot reporters, rushing to be the first to break the news, without checking any facts :ugh:

[GobonaStick]

Idiot reporters? Quite a ridiculous thing to say on a thread which is doing exactly the same.

Make that two threads: One saying "aircraft down", the other saying "crash".

What's that about rushing to break news before checking facts? Jeez.

[Capvermell]

Ship Mistaken For Plane Crash In Gran Canaria (http://news.sky.com/story/1233056/ship-mistaken-for-plane-crash-in-gran-canaria)


Ship Mistaken For Plane Crash In Gran Canaria


3:25pm UK, Thursday 27 March 2014
http://media.skynews.com/media/images/generated/2014/3/27/298818/default/v1/cegrab-20140327-152017-688-1-522x293.jpg The Canary Islands lie off the coast of north west Africa.

Emergency services have mistaken a shipping vessel for a plane crash near Gran Canaria, it has emerged.

More follows... So a false alarm telling us only that some journalists do not know the difference between a plane and a ship. It is of course possible there may turn out to be a news event of some kind involving a ship off the coast of Gran Canaria........

EDIT:- BBC Radio 5 Live now also confirming at 3.30pm that "Spanish emergency services staff mistook a ship in the sea for an aeroplane":eek::ugh:

[WorkInProgress]

Halcyon Days

I agree. Journalists and 24hr TV news are in such a frenzy to break a story first that they end up reporting complete rubbish!!
Thank god it was a false alarm

[jolly__jumper]

An on some media were already saying it was a Boeing 737... :yuk:

[Capetonian]

AENA no tiene constancia de que haya amerizado ningún avión de pasajeros en Gran Canaria

AENA says that no passenger a/c has crashed into the sea.......

[Capetonian]

AENA no tiene constancia de que haya amerizado ningún avión de pasajeros en Gran Canaria

AENA says no passenger a/c has crashed into the sea.

FALSE ALARM (thankfully)

[2dPilot]

Idiot reporters, rushing to be the first to break the news, without checking any facts :ugh:

Not really, they seem to have picked-up on a report from the Canary Emergency Services.
What do they need to do? Charter a flight out there for a visual inspection before passing on? Some are criticizing withheld information, others saying info should be held until 100% confirmed.
On that basis, MH370 is nothing more than just "Missing"

[Kerosene Kraut]

There is a twitter pic that made people speculate:

http://f.blick.ch/img/incoming/origs2758610/8896366275-w644-h960/BjverU3IYAAqP0M.jpg

[3forty]

In times like these it would be wise to confirm any news of this type before posting them to the forum as many non-professionals come to this site for information and updates.

[ManaAdaSystem]

Excuse me, but I don't know if anybody have asked this before: What was in the cargo hold of this aircraft that did not crash?

[Agaricus bisporus]

Journalists and 24hr TV news are in such a frenzy to break a story first

It's not as if they're any different to the dozen or so people who have all repeated the same "it's not a plane, it's a ship" revelation in the previous posts...

[flt001]

27 years to the day since the worlds worst air accident in Tenerife.

[txl]

Also on Twitter: Pic of the thing that probably got confused with an airplane.

https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/449208139926077442/photo/1

[AT1]

Did the plane emit any "pings" before it did not crash?

[tdracer]

27 years to the day since the worlds worst air accident in Tenerife.

Correction - 37 years....

[ManaAdaSystem]

There is a boat out where it did not crash, so the pilots probably did not land on the sea and steal the two tons of gold that was not on board.

[Capvermell]

flt001 wrote:- "27 years to the day since the worlds worst air accident in Tenerife"No its 37 years to the day today since the crash involving the KLM and Pan Am 747s at Los Rodeos (Tenerife North) Airport in Tenerife.

See Tenerife airport disaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster)

[Dushan]

Can someone please post METAR for the time of non-crash.