All questions are welcome - except clear trolls, please don't be that guy. All questions are welcome such as to how to change oil, to how to tie shoes. Had the emergency landings happened in the southern hemisphere, then their so-called the ‘flat earth map’ would fail to explain them, every time.There is no such thing as a Stupid Question!ĭon't be embarrassed of your curiosity everyone has questions that they may feel uncomfortable asking certain people, so this place gives you a nice area not to be judged about asking it.

Like every other map out there, it is only a projection of a globe.ĭid you notice all the flights they mentioned are flights in the northern hemisphere? It is not a coincidence. We would be able to tell that the shortest distance between two locations on the globe -or the great-circle distance- are not necessarily straight when being plotted on a Mercator map. To demonstrate this, we can use a thread on a globe.

It is wrong to use the Mercator map and take straight lines between two locations as the shortest distance between them. PIA Pakistani, from Islamabad to London, diverted to Moscow.Lufthansa, from Shanghai to Munich, diverted to Moscow.Emirates, from San Francisco to Dubai, diverted to Moscow.Qatar Airways, from Chicago to Doha, diverted to Moscow.

Cathay Pacific from Hong Kong to Los Angeles, diverted to Aleutian Islands, Alaska.

China Airlines from Taipei to Los Angeles, diverted to Anchorage, Alaska.

Some of the flights usually brought up by flat-Earthers are: Then they would mark the locations of the emergency landings, and show that the location of the emergency landings would be closer to the route when it is drawn on the so-called ‘flat earth map’ than the ‘ball earth map’. They would draw straight lines between flight origin and destination, once on a Mercator map (which they refer as something like ‘ball earth map’), and once on the supposed ‘flat earth map’. But for long-haul flights across continents, then it would matter a lot.įlat-Earthers are known to use this mistake -whether deliberately or not- as a ‘proof’ that the Earth is flat. A common case they would bring is emergency landings. With a very short distance -like within a city- it wouldn’t usually matter. We cannot take a straight line between two locations on a map and consider that line the shortest distance between the two locations.

Flat earth map flight paths