Anyone who is afraid of flying should avoid the video channel of British aviation enthusiast Jerry Dyer.
The “Big Jet TV” channel filmed spectacular landings at London Heathrow Airport for almost eight hours.
(dpa)
They still exist, the common campfires: during the storm “Eunice” – called “Zeynep” in German-speaking countries – a YouTube live stream of landings at Heathrow Airport became an internet hit. At times on Friday, more than 230,000 spectators watched as the aircraft enthusiast Jerry Dyer commented on the arrivals with enthusiastic shouts on his YouTube channel “Big Jet TV”. “When I went to sleep, it was 5.5 million views,” said the astonished commentator in an interview with the British BBC on Saturday.
His hours of euphoric live commentary on the sometimes spectacular storm landings had tens of thousands of Britons glued to their screens at home or in the office on Friday. «You can feel it! It’s like being in a washing machine,” Dyer exclaimed as a plane was swayed by the violent wind speeds. Some of the machines needed several attempts on the approach to the British capital London before they managed to touch down on the ground.
The huge audience on Friday overwhelmed Dyer. Normally he has maybe 10,000 hits at the end of the day. “Big Jet TV may be the end of football,” football commentator Clive Tyldesley tweeted appreciatively. Another Twitter user wrote that he would like to see the landings on the big screen while having a few beers in the pub – and got thousands of likes.