Posted on 08/04/2004 12:52:14 PM PDT by maquiladora
LONDON (Reuters) - Market rumors that a commercial aircraft flying from London to either Washington or New York had gone missing are untrue, British and U.S. air traffic controllers said on Wednesday. "There are no reports of any aircraft in difficulties. As far as we know, everything is normal," a spokesman for Britain's National Air Traffic Services told Reuters.
"We've checked with everyone, including our Canadian and European counterparts, and no one has heard anything," said the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration's Glenn Godfrey, operations manager at the FAA's air traffic command center near Washington D.C.
The rumor swept through equity and money markets, becoming a talking point, but prices were largely unaffected.
British Airways, whose shares were down around two percent on the day, said it had checked its flights and everything was normal. (Additional reporting by Mark Egan in New York)
This looks like it was a live rumor that was missed by freepers; at least this is the first I have heard about it.
Threat Matrix has been on it for a couple of hours. In fact, they may have had it last week. ;~)
My knee jerk is that it's mightly suspicious that a Rooters article not only BREAKS the rumor, but sort of debunks it in the same few paragraphs.
Actually, I had heard about this earlier, before the Reuters article, and before it was quashed.
Anyone checked Sandy Burglar's BVDs for the plane in question?
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