Pilot leaves people terrified after showing how close planes fly together

03 October 2023 , 16:21

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Some were less than impressed at how closely planes fly (Image: TikTok / @flyhigh738)

When you're on a plane and you're lucky enough to have a window seat, it can feel like you're the only thing in the sky. You can see the clouds, and the sun reflecting from the wing, and it feels so surreal. But one pilot has shocked people and brought them back to reality after showing just how close to other aircraft you are when you're 36,000 feet in the air.

The pilot, who posts on TikTok as @flyhigh738, filmed their view from the cockpit, showing blue sky and clouds underneath them. Over the video it read: "When you travel by plane and think the sky is so big that you're alone up there..."

"But you're actually almost always flying so close to other planes", the video continued, as it showed another aircraft flying incredibly close to the one they were in. "As we're most of the time following standard airways, kind of like motorways in the sky", the voiceover said, as a plane flew too close for comfort over the plane they were in.

The video then detailed that the aircraft were only 1,000 feet or 300 metres away from each other. "Beautiful, isn't it?", the voiceover said - but some were disagreeing with their observation.

In the comments of the video, many people were left less than impressed with the distance between the planes, with one commenting: "It's crazy how we entrust our lives to people we never met and machines we don't know if they've been maintained." Someone else said: "Do airplanes have horns?" Another joked: "On your phone whilst driving? Three points on your license sir!"

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"Information I did not need to know", wrote another. "Scary and impressive." A TikToker commented: "Been flying all of my life but the older I get the more unnatural I think it is to fly through the air at 35,000 feet in a tube. Weird, I know." "And you don't flash your lights at each other like truckers or buses etc.!?", a curious flyer wrote, and the pilot responded: "We do sometimes, but at night!"

Danielle Kate Wroe