Many frequent flyers have been startled by one unsettling element in Flight Radar’s
representation showing the distribution of commercial flights worldwide at the moment.
For those who need a reminder,
Flight Radar is a website that tracks the location of planes in the air at any one time and provides an illustration of the activities that take place in the world’s sky. Continues…
The aerospace technology company frequently posts pictures of these maps on social media, especially
when the enormous number of commercial engines happens to form a familiar shape or image.
This was the situation a few hours ago when Flight Radar posted their map on X (previously Twitter)
, revealing four glaring holes that made for a highly unnerving visual that many people couldn’t help but notice.
When positioned just above another hole in the Middle East, two adjacent gaps—one in Eastern Europe and the other in East Asia—seemed to resemble two eyes.
The middle parts of Africa may show a third, much wider disparity.
If you haven’t already, a lot of people think that these four blank spaces seem like a skull.
In the comments, a social media user questioned, “Anyone else see the skull face?”
Another merely updated the thread with three
