Google Earth: A woman has claimed the Google Earth photo is the answer to a mystery (Image: Google Earth/No credit) Google Earth maps in Australia appear to show the site of a remarkably intact plane crash. An aircraft can be seen among the dense greenery of Barrington Tops National Park in New South Wales. A woman has claimed the Google Earth photo is the answer to a mystery which has lasted for 40 years. The anonymous plane spotter believes the satellite image - taken in 2018 - shows a plane which went missing in 1981. Related articles Google Maps: Remote Russian island has chilling past Google Maps mystery as UK house is entirely blacked out by cameras Google Earth: Maps appear to solve plane crash - but is mystery photo all it seems? Flight VH-MDX disappeared on 9 August 1981. It was carrying four friends - Ken Price, Noel Wildash, Rhett Bosler and Philip Pembroke - and flown by ex-RAAF commercial pilot Mike Hutchins. The group were flying to Sydney from the Whitsunday islands, where they had spent a holiday. But the aircraft disappeared mid-flight without a trace - and no one knows what happened. Search teams spent nine days looking for the missing aircraft in a hunt which saw helicopters and hundreds of volunteers on foot scouring the area. Four weeks later a follow-up search involved 400 army reserve members, police officers and bush rescue volunteers - but not a trace was found. The vanishing of Flight VH-MDX is Australia’s only unsolved aeroplane mystery since World War Two. Google Earth: An aircraft can be seen among the dense greenery of Barrington Tops National Park (Image: Google Earth) So is the plane spotter right in thinking that, after all this time, the missing plane has been found? Unfortunately, the answer is no. The Barrington Research Group (BRG), which is dedicated to finding the aircraft has said the image does not show Flight VH-MDX. BRG explained that the plane in the photo is not resting on the ground but rather flying above it. “This image is a classic example of an airborne aircraft being snapped by the satellite camera and there are many other examples across the Earth,” the group wrote on their website. “An aircraft is unlikely to rest within the Barrington Wilderness Area in such a near perfect condition as shown in this image. The shadow of the aircraft is also visible on the ground.” Related articles Google Maps Street View: New Jersey road hides terrifying secret Google Maps: Is this the site of mysterious plane crash? Google Earth: Flight VH-MDX disappeared on 9 August, 1981. It was carrying four friends (Image: No credit) Google Maps - The places you are NOT allowed to look atSun, June 17, 2018 Google Maps lets you look at almost anywhere around the world. But there are a few big exceptions. Here are the places you can't look at on Google Maps GOOGLE • GETTY 1 of 11 You can look at almost any location on Google Maps. Almost. Here are the spots you're NOT allowed to see BRG also pointed out two major reasons why Google earth imagery is unlikely to detect Flight VH-MDX. Firstly, “VH-MDX is likely to be beneath tree canopy,” and secondly, “Google Earth imagery is unlikely to be of adequate resolution to detect VH-MDX or a component of VH-MDX,” they said. A new search for the missing aircraft is due to take place in May this year and will use drones. Yvonne Pembroke, the widow of one the missing men, told Australian television channel 7News she is “intrigued that people are still trying to resolve the mystery". Pembroke, who is in close contact with search groups, added: “The next expedition is in mid-May.” Another unexplained plane crash is that of famous aviator Amelia Earhart who vanished in 1937. Could this island on Google Maps hold the answer? All rights reserved for this news site express.co.uk and under his responsibility