Boat down near the Canary Islands - slow news day.

Jack1985

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

EDIT - It's a boat.

JillyQ

any links?

Jack1985

Passenger aircraft down, 2 miles off Gran Canaria.

any links?

From Reuters.

JONJO THE MISER

Jaysus, dont they say bad things come in threes.

sully2010

No confirmation of type/passengers on board as yet

http://news.sky.com/story/1233056/plane-crashes-near-spains-canary-islands

In Spanish
http://www.elmundo.es/espana/2014/03/27/53343f04268e3eb8028b457d.html

JillyQ

http://news.sky.com/story/1233056/plane-crashes-near-spains-canary-islands

hope the link works

Thrill

Spanish news agency EFE reporting that a passenger plane has gone down in the water two miles off the island of Gran Canaria.

Tzardine

Cant find anything on Retuers myself.

Today is the anniversary of the Tenerefe air disaster involving two 747's. I think it might be a badly timed hoax. I hope so anyway.

Thrill

Passengers plane lands on sea off Canary Islands

Jack1985

Conflicting reports if off land or on land, praying to god now it's a minor incident

JillyQ

i hope people are ok onit

sully2010

Thrill wrote: »

Passengers plane lands on sea off Canary Islands

Looks pretty intact, if the pic is real, great landing...thats no Hudson River!

weisses

Reports say its a ship

Gringo180

Its a ship. What a **** up that report was!

Tzardine

Maybe so. Sky news reporting it now

http://news.sky.com/story/1233056/plane-crash-near-spains-gran-canaria

JillyQ

can anyone see the colours on the tail fin?

Thrill

sully2010 wrote: »

Looks pretty intact, if the pic is real, great landing...thats no Hudson River!

Reuters reports Canary Islands emergency services now saying staff mistook a shipping vessel in the sea for a crashed airplane.

That could be a ship. I can see how it could be mistaken for a plane though.

Tzardine

There is a ferry that goes between Lanzarote and Fuerteventura and is yellow if I remember correctly.

sully2010

Looks like a false report, it was a ship

Jack1985

Still unknown, pretty weird on this exact day 37 years ago in 1977 we had the double 747 disaster in Tenerife.

shamrock55

Its not a plane its a boat

sully2010

Jack1985 wrote: »

Still unknown, pretty weird on this exact day 37 years ago in 1977 we had the double 747 disaster in Tenerife.

All news outlets are now confirming it is a ship. Pretty crazy what a picture of a ship that looks like a plane in the sea posted on twitter can do.

Tzardine

shamrock55 wrote: »

Its not a plane its a boat

It could be superman :pac:

Jack1985

How you confuse a boat with a plane is truly remarkable, who the hell released that?

For a while Sky's article said that emergency services said it was a plane into the sea. I wonder if they were lying.

Reoil

Thrill wrote: »

Passengers plane lands on sea off Canary Islands

Some boat!

GTE

Reoil wrote: »

Some boat!

Thrill

The "plane"

Pacing Mule

Glad to hear it was a false alarm.

Might give the journalists a kick up the arse. Everyone was in a rush to be the first to report. Alerts from sky news, bbc news apps etc. Red faces all round.

Jack1985

It's funny that journo's are getting the blame but the f**king emergency services in the Canaries tweeted it was a plane! https://twitter.com/112canarias

shamrock55

It does look like a plane tbf

Deep Thought

Never mind the Journalists...the conspiracy theorists as-well..

"pretty weird on this exact day 37 years ago in 1977 we had the double 747 disaster in Tenerife"

Ash.J.Williams

FFS

Jack1985

"pretty weird on this exact day 37 years ago in 1977 we had the double 747 disaster in Tenerife"

Seen it on twitter when I was looking for the picture bully-boy haha!

Have appropriately re-named the thread

TheDoctor

Look at the flying boat!

TheDoctor

BREAKING NEWS

Boat spotted two miles offshore, emergency services on route!

Pacing Mule

Jack1985 wrote: »

It's funny that journo's are getting the blame but the f**king emergency services in the Canaries tweeted it was a plane! https://twitter.com/112canarias

And it seems they all went mad to report it without checking it out or getting confirmation. A colleague in work has family flying to the canaries today. That wasn't a pleasant few min for him.

GTE

But I think we are missing the real news story here. How the hell could a boat crash into the sea?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

I best get on Twitter and be all informed like.

Feckin idiots + internet = digital wildfire.