VIDEO: Plane appears to be stuck mid-air during flight
The video of a plane seemingly standing still in mid-air has gone viral...
Truth is often stranger than fiction, so proves a recent video which shows a plane pausing mid-air during a flight.
The video, shared by Will Manidis on X (formerly Twitter), quickly grabbed the attention of many social media users.
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"Watched a plane pause in the air today, and y'all still think physics is real." He captioned the viral video.
Watch the viral video here:
watched a plane pause in the air today and y’all still think physics is real pic.twitter.com/ZHS4yrmvAN
— Will Manidis (@WillManidis) October 13, 2023
In an interview with PEOPLE, Manidis said he "was looking out of the window and noticed the optical illusion right as [the plane was] landing."
He added that he "was recording videos of the beautiful views before noticing the weird illusion."
Of course, the internet had a lot to say about the peculiar video.
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One user responded to the post, writing, "They're just buffering." Another posted, "There's a glitch in the matrix."
Fortunately, or unfortunately, depending on how you view it, there is a logical explanation for this occurrence.
According to PEOPLE, planes may encounter headwinds and tailwinds during a flight. Tailwinds come from behind the aircraft, allowing travellers to reach their destination quicker; headwinds can slow a plane down.
Some headwinds can be so strong that the plane could appear stagnant in the sky, but actually, it’s just moving very slowly.
Another explanation could also be the Parallax illusion.
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"Parallax is the observed displacement of an object caused by the change of the observer's point of view," according to SPACE.com.
One X user responded to Manidis’s video posting, "Bc of the bridge: best video for this illusion so far."
This was in reference to how the plane does not appear to move over the highway due to how Manidis's camera view curves around the massive bridge
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