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Why do shipwrecks appear on in-flight maps? - Yahoo
Depending on how your flight is going - and whether you are engrossed in the latest Ryan Reynolds rom-com/action movie, or asleep with your head bumping against the window - you may, at some point, have found yourself gazing at your seatback screen, and the digital map which shows the progress of your plane towards your destination.
For the most part, there is usually little - beyond the dreary realisation that you are still somewhere near Frankfurt, when you could have sworn you were crossing the Channel - to retain your attention for long. There are the major urban dots on the ground below - Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam and their ilk. There are the less obvious locations - Aachen always seems to crop up on any flight over Germany; Chartwell is sometimes marked as you begin your descent into London. And there are the occasional "landmarks" on the seabed - a ridge here, an oceanic trench there. All largely unremarkable. Back to Mr Reynolds and his latest tussle with the opposite sex and/or an international villain.
But what is this in the corner of the screen? It's an evocative name, with a year in brackets. Could it be? Surely it can't? Yes, it seems to be the location of a shipwreck.
Depending on how your flight is going - and whether you are engrossed in the latest Ryan Reynolds rom-com/action movie, or asleep with your head bumping against the window - you may, at some point, have found yourself gazing at your seatback screen, and the digital map which shows the progress of your plane towards your destination.
For the most part, there is usually little - beyond the dreary realisation that you are still somewhere near Frankfurt, when you could have sworn you were crossing the Channel - to retain your attention for long. There are the major urban dots on the ground below - Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam and their ilk. There are the less obvious locations - Aachen always seems to crop up on any flight over Germany; Chartwell is sometimes marked as you begin your descent into London. And there are the occasional "landmarks" on the seabed - a ridge here, an oceanic trench there. All largely unremarkable. Back to Mr Reynolds and his latest tussle with the opposite sex and/or an international villain.
But what is this in the corner of the screen? It's an evocative name, with a year in brackets. Could it be? Surely it can't? Yes, it seems to be the location of a shipwreck.