Mystery Plane Wreck found using Google Earth
Posted on April 26, 2009 by by Valeri
An aircraft which went missing more than two and a half years ago has been found with the help of Google Earth.
The single-engine Cessna carrying Marcy Randolph, 43, and pilot William Westover went missing after a sightseeing flight on September 24, 2006.
Family and authorities have been searching for the missing aircraft for more than two and a half years in different areas of Arizona-USA but with the help of Google Earth the search has finally ended.
A person who had also been involved in the attempts to find millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, found a picture of a forest fire that had been taken the same day as the crash and in what was thought to be a similar area. He alerted the family, which had set up a website
to aid in the search. Remarkably, they were able to find the exact area in the picture using the different viewing angles and topographical data of Google Earth “video”.
The family and some volunteers then set out to the area they had pinpointed in the program, using its coordinates. Sure enough, they found the wreckage. TechCrunch
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