Numerous people said that they saw the plane moving very slowly when they observed it in the sky.
However, people are not unaware that planes can reach at very high speeds.
The explanation for this perception is that planes are often seen from great distances, and when observed from the ground as they appear in the sky, they seem to move extremely slowly.
A video shared on TikTok proved the speed of the plane. The footage showed how fast the plane actually reached, leaving some viewers in disbelief.
The seven-second clip was shared on TikTok by user @plutosdestiny with the simple title: "The true speed of an airplane."
The clip showed that the plane moves in the sky and looks very fast.
On the screen, the words 'the real speed of the plane' are embedded in an image of the sky and clouds, leaving numerous people shocked by the actual speed of the plane.
In the video, cameras record what appears to be a Boeing 737 from another aircraft in the sky.
The Boeing plane reached a cruising speed of 545 mph and appeared to be moving very fast.
The video quickly viral on social media and gained 18.9 M views and 10,000 comments, with some viewers saying they didn't believe it.
Watching the video below:
What is even more unbelievable, if they fly side by side at the same speed it looks like they are not moving. Therefore they should fall out of the sky, but they don't. Amazing! said one.
A second said: 2 planes double the speed because one goes let's say 500mph North and the other one 500mph South adds to 1000.
A third wrote: The person taking the image is traveling fast one way and the plane underneath is traveling fast the other way of course it looks fast, they are both going fast.
Someone commented: It is quite common to see this in busy air corridors. Separated by 1000ft vertically. Of course, really it's going half the observed speed as you are doing a similar speed in the opposite direction.
Aside from the public's desperately poor grasp of basic physics, the plane with the camera was going the other way, so the combined speed of both gives the impression. Another added.
When we see planes in the sky, the seemingly slow speed is due to a phenomenon called motion parallax.
This concept explains that the objects moving at a constant speed across a frame appear to move more slowly when they are further away from the viewer (person or camera) than when they are closer.
