OT MH 370 is it, is it not?

[Harry Bloomfield]

Googleearth 9°09'20.0"N 98°33'10.0"E

A Briton suggests this might be the missing MH 370.

Is it a real aircraft or a Googleearth aberration?

[Harry Bloomfield]

It does look as if the tail is broken or bent to an odd angle, but they were supposed to have found a large item washed up on a beach somewhere. There is an odd pink colour of the foliage ahead of the aircraft nose.

[samchunk]

That's not a 777-200ER

And bits of the MH370 have been found in the southern indian ocean.

[Andy Burns]

Presume it's a real aircraft flying below the satellite, it would hardly land intact, inside a forest.

[Harry Bloomfield]

Ulikely, but.... I wonder what the pink is and why the fuselage looks bent/ distorted?

They are convinced enough to try to organise an helicopter to go take a look.

[The Other Mike]

It's definitely real and there are lots of them around. For instance

Google Earth

Search for Russell Square London

or this lat and long

51°31'18.04" N 0°07'32.34" W

Use the 'clock' icon to go back to the historic view from June 2010

Or just view the same google earth view here (jpg screen cap)

If you declutter labels etc you can zoom out on Google Earth to around 15km and still 'see' the aircraft giving some indication of the height of the aircraft taking the image.

P.S. The aircraft is and never was parked in the square :)

[Andy Burns]

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[GB]

Chromatic aberration, indeed! I'm pleased they printed that correction.

[samchunk]

Very likely in fact. There is no way that it could be MH370 given that even if it had landed there, it wouldn't have ended up so intact in that sort of jungle, and there would still be the track of the swath that the plane produced landing there even now.

Likely just an camera artefact given how far away it must be.

Fools abound given the known bits of MH370 found on the southern indian ocean.

[samchunk]

And when you go back to the previous image with his original coords, no plane, and its still well after MH370 went missing.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Prolly anaircraft flying under whatever shot te picture.

Bits of MH370 have washed up.

That isnt in te sea is it?

[tony sayer]

In article , The Other Mike scribeth thus

Theres a housing estate up at Huntingdon that has a Lancaster flying over it looks rather impressive, it was the battle of Britain one returning from a display somewhere...

[Bob Eager]

Schrodinger's aircraft?

[Bob Martin]

Who is "they"?

[Brian Gaff]

You would have thought so. It is a worry though that in this day an age you can lose a large aircraft for so long considering all the sophisticated earth monitoring systems we have today looking down from space every day. Brian

[The Other Mike]

I blame the cat for distracting me and random words just appearing on the page. I can't blame it for the typing as it was sat on the keyboard connected to the NAS at the time.

[newshound]

Bill Bryson has an interesting example of something fairly large that went down some time ago in the Appalachian forests and has never been found. But I agree, there is more scanning these days.