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Why do shipwrecks appear on in-flight maps?
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1589" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://news.yahoo.com/why-shipwrecks-appear-flight-maps-091303499.html" target="_blank"><strong>Why do shipwrecks appear on in-flight maps? - Yahoo</strong></a></p><p></p><p>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 <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/death-of-seatback-screens-etihad-in-flight-entertainment/" target="_blank">seatback screen</a>, and the digital map which shows the progress of your plane towards your destination.</p><p></p><p>For the most part, there is usually little - beyond the dreary realisation that you are still somewhere near Frankfurt, when you could have <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/comment/best-flight-route-views/" target="_blank">sworn you were crossing the Channel</a> - 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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1589, member: 1"] [URL='https://news.yahoo.com/why-shipwrecks-appear-flight-maps-091303499.html'][B]Why do shipwrecks appear on in-flight maps? - Yahoo[/B][/URL] 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 [URL='https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/death-of-seatback-screens-etihad-in-flight-entertainment/']seatback screen[/URL], 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 [URL='https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/comment/best-flight-route-views/']sworn you were crossing the Channel[/URL] - 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. [/QUOTE]
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