It’s one thing to live on a flight path – it’s quite another to have a plane seem to barely miss your house as it flies past. Luckily, a video taken on Myrtle Avenue, near Heathrow in London, which appears to show just that, was a clever optical illusion.
The viral clip, taken by Evie Aviation, left X users gobsmacked after it looked as though a huge British Airways plane was slowly drifting right above the roofs of the houses.
But the video was just a result of clever positioning and slowing down the time. “The noise must be unbearable for the people living there – but the sights,” said one commenter.
Another said: “This is a marvellous video! So satisfying to watch over & over”
While a third remarked: “Cor that’s stunning. Love it there.”
Others saw it as proof of the issues of living on a flight path, with several saying they “felt sorry” for anyone living near the popular airport, which serves over 100,000 people a day.
The video of the dramatic plane landing comes after a dramatic video shows a Boeing 777 landing in Heathrow amid the raging winds of Storm Gerrit.
The aircraft, operated by an American airline, was coming to land when it was struck by high winds that caused it to have a rocky landing as the pilots battled with the controls. The moment was captured on Big Jet TV whose host could barely contain their excitement to the unfolding landing.
And more recently a multitude of storms caused widespread travel disruption – with some aircraft ending up taking wildly different routes to avoid landing in the dangerous conditions.
A passenger on a flight from Spain back to London told Express.co.uk how he and his girlfriend ended up having to trek back to the UK by ferry after Storm Isha caused his flight to divert nearly 300 miles away from its intended destination.
He ended up on an impromptu trip to Paris, before finally boarding a ferry back to the UK.
Similarly, a Ryanair flight that was travelling from Manchester to Dublin found itself diverting 500 miles to Paris due to the storm.
Journalist Nicola Bardon was among those on the flight. She told the Manchester Evening News: “We were already delayed leaving Manchester. We got to Dublin and were over the runway, and then the next thing, we were back in the sky.
“We attempted [to land] again and then the pilot made an announcement that Dublin was too windy and that Manchester was full, so we were going to the East Midlands. About 20 minutes later, we were updated to say the UK airports were not an option and that they had made the decision to go to Paris Beauvais.
“There was a big laugh from the passengers when the pilot informed us of Paris initially. One person yelled ‘Welcome to Pari, would prefer to be in Kerry’.”
