THE mystery of a ghostly passenger plane pictured at the bottom of a lake in America has finally been solved.
The eerie Google Earth image showed what appeared to be the undiscovered wreck of a twin-engine aircraft in Minneapolis, USA.
The puzzle drove the Internet crazy as park officials who oversee Lake Harriet, where it was spotted, revealed no crashes had happened in the area.
By zooming in on the image some people even made out the plane’s tail and passenger windows, but all was not as it seemed.
Susan Cadrecha, a spokeswoman for Google maps, told the Star Tribune: "In short, each satellite image you see on the map is actually a compilation of several images.
“Fast-moving objects like planes often show up in only one of the many
images we use for a given area.
“When this happens, faint remnants of the fast-moving object can
sometimes be seen.”
Lake Harriet is directly under a busy flight path for Minneapolis-Saint Paul
airport.
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