It was a dark and stormy night when a video filmed from the cockpit of a plane surfaced on social media showing the conditions pilots face while landing in heavy rain.
“That was the day I learned that planes have wiper blades,” said TikToker @damailufta, who shared his front-row seat behind the pilots in the cockpit as their windshield wipers went off in Stavanger, Norway. Worked to clear the landing scene at Sula Airport. .
Mina Forman Bertheussen, 30, who said she is a Norwegian Airlines flight attendant based in Oslo, was not working the night she shot the video. She was a passenger on her own airline visiting family and requested a seat in the cockpit for part of the flight.
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“It was a short 40-minute flight, but it was raining a lot,” Bertheusen told Fox News Digital. “It wasn’t really a flying flight. But I found it very interesting and wanted to film it because you couldn’t see anything.”
Mina Forman-Bertheusen was a passenger on the flight when she filmed the video showing the pilots landing the plane during a rainstorm. (Mina Forman Bertheusen)
The rarely-seen glimpse of what goes on inside the cockpit during bad weather stunned viewers, and the video garnered more than 3.5 million views.
“These guys are magicians,” someone commented.
“Talk about trusting your devices,” another viewer commented.
As the plane approached for landing, the pilots could hear how many meters above the ground the plane was, which Bertheusen says should dispel the idea that planes land on autopilot.
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“You can actually hear it during the video,” he said. “At about 300 to 400 meters, you’ll hear a loud alarm. That’s them turning off the autopilot. So from there, they’re flying the airplane completely by themselves. The autopilot is off.” Use only under certain circumstances.”
A Norwegian Airlines flight attendant filmed the moment the pilots landed the plane in the middle of a heavy rainstorm. The behind-the-scenes footage is now going viral on social media. (Mina Forman Bertheusen)
Many TikTok viewers were surprised by the average looking windshield wipers as well as smooth landings in adverse conditions.
“Those windshield wipers were fighting for their lives,” one person commented.
“These wiper blades caused severe anxiety,” wrote someone else.
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“Vipers stole the show,” commented another viewer.
Bertheusen said her cockpit approach confirmed what she already knew about the training and professionalism of pilots.
“You get to see that they don’t just trust their eyes,” she said. “They trust them too. [instruments] Pilots on the ground are really in control. They know exactly what they are doing.”
Mina Forman-Bertheusen poses for a photo while working as a flight attendant. (Mina Forman Bertheusen)
Flying during turbulent weather can be unsettling for passengers, but Bertheusen said, in his experience, there’s no reason to worry.
“The video looks very dramatic, but they are in complete control,” he said. “It wasn’t really dramatic. It’s normal for pilots, and they have a lot of training. It’s like flight attendants for us. When it’s messy or when there’s turbulence, we don’t panic because our We have the training and we know what is safe.”
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Bertheusen said he posted the video to show how pilots land planes in bad weather. (Mina Forman Bertheusen)
This isn’t the first time Bertheusen has offered a unique behind-the-scenes look at a job most people will never experience.
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, he pursued a career as a crane operator and posted a video of himself working in a small, glass-enclosed cabin above the city.
The viral video shows the conditions faced by pilots while landing a plane during stormy weather. The footage has garnered more than 3.5 million views on TikTok. (Mina Forman Bertheusen)
“When you show a video from this kind of work, it’s something that people don’t see a lot, or they don’t know what’s going on there,” he said. “So maybe it was interesting for people to see.”
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Fox News Digital has reached out to Norwegian Airlines for comment.
