alt Hacker NewsThere was a Belgian passenger plan that got lost on its way to Teheran and had to land in Grozny. Before GPS planes had literal human navigators with maps and sextants!
I would be more inclined to believe in the Bermuda triangle myth if it happened with modern planes and their transponders.
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EdwardDiego • last Sunday at 8:57 PM
IIRC some passenger aircraft had a sweet periscopic sextant installed, and even the 747 still had a sextant port - not that it stopped KAL-007 crossing the Kamchatka peninsula...
aitchnyu • last Monday at 5:14 AM
The British hid the Taj Mahal in WW2 from planes. In Indo-Pak war in 1971, cities and towns far from the border had to blackout. There was blackout in Punjab in 2025 war too.
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Your comment reminded me about the concrete arrows deployed across the U.S. for pilots.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/before-radios-pilots-n...
According to that, Montana still uses them.