A healthy plane in the middle of the forest appears on Google Maps... a confusing image and conflicting interpretations

Written By رنا السيلاوي on 2022/08/22

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><strong>Weather of Arabia</strong> - It seemed that the giant maps of the Internet search engines &quot;Google&quot; had spotted a plane that fell in the rainforests in Australia, so the matter puzzled many, and they offered several explanations to solve its mystery.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> A careful user spotted what appeared to be a perfectly intact plane over a treeless area of the Cardwell Mountain Range, 249 kilometers south of Port Douglas in the northeastern Australian state of Queensland, according to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/08/21/possible-downed-plane-in-australia-rainfor... York Post</a> . </p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><img alt="" src="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/downed-plane.jpg?q... style="width: 900px; height: 600px;" /></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><img alt="" src="https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/1bc6ba2becf5932e4ed99ea8652014c4" style="width: 900px; height: 674px;" /></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Australian safety officials said it was likely just a glitch in Google&#39;s satellite software.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority spoke of the &quot;ghost images&quot;, which appeared to be real, denying their work with the loss of any passenger plane.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> It is believed that the plane was either a &quot;Boeing A320&quot; or &quot;Boeing 737&quot;, and was flying at a low altitude, giving the impression that it was on the ground, and this is one of the explanations put forward.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> In 2016, there were reports of a plane that crashed into Lake Minneapolis and reached its bottom, based on Google Maps images.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> But the search engine giant said at the time that the satellite image that appears on the Internet is a compilation of several images.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> He pointed out that fast objects such as aircraft appear in one of these images that are used for a specific area, and therefore faint remnants of these fast-moving objects appear.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Google has not confirmed that this applies to the image of the plane in Australia.</p>

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.


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