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Katie Williams

Big Jet TV attracts 5 million viewers after live streaming planes at Heathrow goes viral

As Storm Eunice battered the south of England, pilots were doing their best to land safely-and one channel caught it all on camera.

Big Jet TV is a Youtube channel that plane spots and went viral on Friday February 18 as it caught planes attempting to land at Heathrow.

As wind speeds picked up, it soon became a must watch 'TV' moment as pilots across the country battled with the gales.

READ MORE- Glasgow Easyjet flight forced to abort landing due to Storm Dudley wind

More than five million viewers tuned in to Big Jet TV on Saturday to watch aircrafts fight with high winds as came to land at London's Heathrow Airport.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Jerry Dyer, who runs Big Jet TV said: “Yesterday, when the whole Storm Eunice, and prior to that Storm Dudley… I said in the morning… I wonder if we can possibly reach 30,000 people watching live, as many as we did during Storm Ciara.

“Every now and then you’d glance at the number of people watching and you’re like, 88,000 people… 105,000 people – it was just going mad.

“At the end of the day we ended up with… normally we’d have about 100,000-plus views, and we had, from when I went to sleep last night, it was 5.5 million views.”

Mr Dyer, gobsmacked at the success, noted that at one point there were 238,000 viewers watching live during the channel’s peak popularity on Friday.

Today presenter Nick Robinson said: “They dream of that at GB News, I’ll tell you that. It was an extraordinary number of people watching.”

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