MYSTERY surrounds the discovery of what appears to be an aircraft sitting on the ground in the middle of nowhere in the Simpson Desert. An Alice Springs man discovered the "plane" yesterday, which he estimates to be about 128km southeast of the outback town. The man, who preferred not to be named, said he had been making a routine check of the region using internet-based satellite images available on Google Earth. Alice Springs Airport general manager Don McDonald said it was not uncommon for images of planes to be found on Google Earth and that the image may be of...