Why don t planes fly from Alaska to Russia?

Unfortunately, airlines can't just fly eastward from Russia to the USA due to the curvature of the Earth. The shortest distance between two points is a straight line, and since our planet is round, flying in a straight line would mean that planes would eventually end up back where they started!



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