Passenger captures flight cruising right above his own in rare airplane phenomenon
- This phenomenon is incredibly rare to see
- But one passenger caught two planes flying perfectly in tandem
- The vertically-locked planes were at a safe distance
Published on Mar 08, 2025 at 3:30 PM (UTC+4)
by Jack Marsh
Last updated on Mar 06, 2025 at 12:13 PM (UTC+4)
Edited by
Tom Wood
In a rare airplane phenomenon, one passenger has captured the moment another airline flight was cruising directly above the head of their own plane.
With the holidays out of the way, it’s nearly time for the vacation season.
As we prepare to jet off to a sunny coast or crack out the tourism cameras, airlines and planes are also gearing up for another busy year in the skies.
But have you ever seen a plane hovering directly above another?
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Passenger films rare airplane phenomenon
This year is already proving to be a massive landmark for airplanes, with the future of travel getting a massive boost with the Boom Supersonic prototype cracking the sound barrier ahead of its passenger carrier launch.
But in the meantime, supersonic travel is being benched for those long and drawn-out slogs across the skies, filled with crying children and salivating adults eyeing up your $10 bag of Resse’s Pieces.
Jet-setting season has begun already though, and thanks to Schipol Airport (Netherlands), a rare airplane phenomenon of two carriers traveling in the same direction has been caught on camera.
The two planes were flying high above the skies with one gliding directly above the other, creating the illusion that both planes were simply hovering in tandem.
This is a perfectly fine and safe thing to happen. With many flights following similar paths to their final destinations, planes can become aligned and will always maintain a vertical distance of around a thousand feet or more.
But to be lined up in such fashion is quite a rarity, especially to be caught on camera.
The Dutch airport shared the rare airplane phenomenon on Instagram a few weeks ago but didn’t elaborate on where the vertically-paired planes were heading.
Some plane fanatics tried to fill in some blanks though.
“By each wingtip I can assume it’s a350 over 787 Dreamliner,” one user wrote, which was flagged by the airport’s social team.
Aircraft have really enjoyed exploring the skies already in 2025, with one YouTuber piloting a plane to the edge of space.
On a journey much closer to the ground, the behemoth 80-year-old flying boat from WW2 was spotted flying over Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, on a retirement run that would end on Lake Pleasant, Arizona.
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