For a brief moment on Wednesday morning, Twitter users nearly had a collective blip of a heart attack when the AP tweeted that one of the Dutch planes carrying bodies from the downed Malaysia Airlines flight “crash lands in Eindhoven.” The apparent news from one of the most trusted news sources in the world, that one of the planes flying crash victims home had also crashed at the airport, was unthinkable.
The tweet was a breaking news alert from the AP on the wire, which meant the error was spread far and wide.
BREAKING: Dutch military plane carrying bodies from Malaysia Airlines …read more
Source: Newsweek
