Flight attendants viral video shows pilots landing in heavy rainstorm in rarely seen view

It was a dark and stormy night when a video filmed from the cockpit of an airplane emerged on social media, showing the conditions pilots face when landing in heavy rain.“This was the day I learned that planes have wiper blades,” said TikToker @damailufta, who shared her front-row seat behind the pilots in the cockpit as their windshield wipers worked to clear the view for landing at Sola Airport in Stavanger, Norway.Mina Farmen Bertheussen, 30, who said she’s a Norwegian Airlines flight attendant based in Oslo, wasn’t working the night she filmed the video; she was a passenger on her own airline to visit family and requested a seat in the cockpit for part of the flight.“It was a short 40-minute flight, but it was raining so much,” Bertheussen told Fox News Digital.“It wasn’t really a bumpy flight.

But I found it so interesting and wanted to film it because you couldn’t see anything.”The seldom-seen glimpse of what goes on inside the cockpit during rough weather bewildered viewers, and the video garnered more than 3.5 million views. “These guys are magicians,” someone commented. “Talk about trusting your instruments,” another viewer commented.As the plane approached for landing, the pilots can be heard counting down the number of meters the plane was from the ground, which Bertheussen says should debunk the idea that planes land on autopilot.“You can actually hear it during the video,” she said.“Around 300 to 400 meters, you can hear a loud alarm.

That’s them turning off the auto autopilot.So from there, they are completely flying the plane themselves.

Autopilot is only used in certain conditions.”Many TikTok viewers appeared to be as amazed by the average-looking windshield wipers as well as the smooth landing in unfavorable conditions.“Those windshield wipers were fighting for their lives,” one person commented. “These wiper blades gave serious anxiety vibes,” someone else wrote.“Wipers stole the show,”...