The World Airspace Tracking Website is an example of time travel: from 2023 to 2022 (Photo: Social Networks/Reproduction)
Passengers on board a United Airlines Boeing 777300 this Saturday afternoon (December 31) make a real and anything but fictitious journey through time: En route to the United States, the group left Seoul in North Korea, in 2023 and reach their destination in Year 2022. Passengers boarded at around 00:29 on January 1, 2023 at Incheon International Airport in Seoul bound for San Francisco in the United States. The aircraft is expected to arrive at 5:01 p.m. this Saturday, December 31, 2022.
“Time travel” is caused by the International Date Line in the Pacific Ocean. Leaving the Asia “time zone” for America, the aircraft enters a zone of minus 23 hours with respect to the previous zone, which “increases” as the aircraft maintains its course. At 2:43 p.m. this Saturday (Brasília time), the plane had been in the air for two hours and 13 minutes and within the “time zone” of Asia still in the year 2023.
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In a few hours, the Boeing will cross the socalled International Date Line, located at 180º from the Greenwich meridian, and passengers will return to 2022. In total, the flight is expected to last nine hours and 46 minutes.