Originally Posted by
Ascend Charlie
Wonder how the Flat Earthers rationalise this flight taking only 15 hours and going via Antarctica?
As it happens, I've also been following The Flat Earth Society forum for a couple of years. (TFES.org: I urge you to take a look, its brilliant).
The usual response by the Flatties (to things like the some-time Qantas/LATAM scheduled flights between Santiago and Melbourne) is a combination of;
1. The flight never took place; NASA and other global-conspirators fiddling the books on FR24 etc.
2. "Yes, but you can't actually book a flight, or if you do it gets mysteriously cancelled or diverted via LAX".
3. In-flight refuelling somewhere over Siberia.
4. Anomalous southern supersonic jetstreams, (Somehow always favouring the direction of flight).
On this occasion, because the flight was so well followed on FR24, Twitter and, well,
reality, they've just completely ignored it.