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Google Maps User Notices What Seems to Be Downed Plane in Australian Rainforest
Google Maps User Notices What Seems to Be Downed Plane in Australian Rainforest
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Although Google has yet to comment on the issue, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau reportedly said it wasn’t aware of any missing passenger jets. 22.08.2022, Sputnik International
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A Google Maps user noticed an object which resembled a fully intact airplane lying on the ground in the Cardwell Range, about 155 miles south of Port Douglas on the Queensland coast, Australia. According to the Daily Mail, the image could show an Airbus A320 or a Boeing 737 plane flying very low, giving an impression that it was on the ground. However, Australian safety officials reportedly suggested that it was probably just a glitch in Google’s satellite software.“There appears to be a phenomenon called ghost images and that could be what this is,” Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority told the media. It added that it wasn’t aware of any missing passenger jets.Google has not yet commented on the case in Queensland.So-called "ghost" planes have been noticed by eagle-eyed users before, and Google has already explained that satellite images appearing on the Google Maps website are compilations of several images which occasionally causes fast-moving objects such as planes to show up in only one of the many images being used for a given area.
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Google Maps User Notices What Seems to Be Downed Plane in Australian Rainforest
06:40 GMT 22.08.2022 (Updated: 08:21 GMT 22.08.2022) Although Google has yet to comment on the issue, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau reportedly said it wasn’t aware of any missing passenger jets.
A Google Maps user noticed an object which resembled a fully intact airplane lying on the ground in the Cardwell Range, about 155 miles south of Port Douglas on the Queensland coast, Australia.
According to the Daily Mail, the image could show an Airbus A320 or a Boeing 737 plane flying very low, giving an impression that it was on the ground.
However, Australian safety officials reportedly suggested that it was probably just a glitch in Google’s satellite software.
“There appears to be a phenomenon called ghost images and that could be what this is,” Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority told the media.
It added that it wasn’t aware of any missing passenger jets.
Google has not yet commented on the case in Queensland.
So-called "ghost" planes have been noticed by eagle-eyed users before, and Google has already explained that satellite images appearing on the Google Maps website are compilations of several images which occasionally causes fast-moving objects such as planes to show up in only one of the many images being used for a given area.
