Flight attendant's viral video shows pilots landing in heavy rainstorm

It was a acheronian and stormy nighttime erstwhile a video filmed from the cockpit of an airplane emerged connected societal media, showing the conditions pilots look erstwhile landing successful dense rain.

"This was the time I learned that planes person wiper blades," said TikToker @damailufta, who shared her front-row spot down the pilots successful the cockpit arsenic their windshield wipers worked to wide the presumption for landing astatine Sola Airport successful Stavanger, Norway.

Mina Farmen Bertheussen, 30, who said she's a Norwegian Airlines formation attendant based successful Oslo, wasn’t moving the nighttime she filmed the video; she was a rider connected her ain hose to sojourn household and requested a spot successful the cockpit for portion of the flight.

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"It was a abbreviated 40-minute flight, but it was raining truthful much," Bertheussen told Fox News Digital. "It wasn’t truly a bumpy flight. But I recovered it truthful absorbing and wanted to movie it due to the fact that you couldn’t spot anything."

Mina Farmen Bertheussen was a rider connected the formation erstwhile she filmed the video showing pilots landing a level during a rainstorm. (Mina Farmen Bertheussen)

The seldom-seen glimpse of what goes connected wrong the cockpit during rough weather bewildered viewers, and the video garnered much than 3.5 cardinal views. 

"These guys are magicians," idiosyncratic commented. 

"Talk astir trusting your instruments," different spectator commented.

As the level approached for landing, the pilots tin beryllium heard counting down the fig of meters the level was from the ground, which Bertheussen says should debunk the thought that planes land connected autopilot.

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"You tin really perceive it during the video," she said. "Around 300 to 400 meters, you tin perceive a large alarm. That's them turning disconnected the car autopilot. So from there, they are wholly flying the level themselves. Autopilot is lone utilized successful definite conditions."

A Norwegian Airlines formation attendant filmed the infinitesimal erstwhile pilots landed a level amid a dense rainstorm. The behind-the-scenes footage is present going viral connected societal media. (Mina Farmen Bertheussen)

Many TikTok viewers appeared to beryllium arsenic amazed by the average-looking windshield wipers arsenic good arsenic the creaseless landing successful unfavorable conditions.

"Those windshield wipers were warring for their lives," 1 idiosyncratic commented. 

"These wiper blades gave superior anxiety vibes," idiosyncratic other wrote.

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"Wipers stole the show," different spectator commented.

Bertheussen said her cockpit position confirmed what she already knew astir the grooming and professionalism of the pilots.

"You benignant of get to spot that they don't lone trust connected their eyes," she said. "They besides trust connected their [instruments] to land. The pilots are truly successful control. They cognize precisely what they are doing."

Mina Farmen Bertheussen poses for a photograph portion moving arsenic a formation attendant. (Mina Farmen Bertheussen)

Flying during turbulent upwind tin beryllium unnerving for passengers, but Bertheussen said, successful her experience, there’s nary crushed to worry.

"The video looks precise dramatic, but they are successful afloat control," she said. "It wasn't truly melodramatic astatine all. It's mean for the pilots, and they person a batch of training. It's the aforesaid for america arsenic flight attendants. When it's bumpy oregon erstwhile there’s turbulence, we're not frightened due to the fact that we person training, and we cognize what is safe." 

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Bertheussen said she posted the video to amusement however pilots navigate landing a level during unsmooth upwind conditions. (Mina Farmen Bertheussen)

This isn’t the archetypal clip Bertheussen has offered a unique, behind-the-scenes presumption of a occupation astir radical volition ne'er acquisition first-hand.

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, she made a vocation arsenic a crane relation and posted a video of herself moving successful a small, glass-enclosed compartment precocious supra a city.

The viral video shows conditions pilots look erstwhile landing an airplane amid stormy weather. The footage garnered much than 3.5 cardinal views connected TikTok. (Mina Farmen Bertheussen)

"When you amusement a video from this benignant of job, it's thing radical don't spot arsenic much, oregon they don't cognize what's going connected successful there," she said. "So it was astir apt absorbing for radical to see."

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Fox News Digital reached retired to Norwegian Airlines for comment.