Crash near the Canary Islands

[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

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/origs...U3IYAAqP0M.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]

Probably a sea crane

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

https://twitter.com/flightradar24/st...077442/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

[Dushan]

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