
The day plane spotting took over the UK
CNN
Big Jet TV's live feed of airplanes landing at Heathrow during Storm Eunice saw 230,000 tuning in to plane spot, topped Twitter's trending rankings and crashed its own website.
(CNN) — As Storm Eunice battered the UK with 122 miles-per-hour winds on Friday, people across the country were told to stay in their homes.
And as they sheltered from the storm, many took up a new hobby: plane spotting.
With the storm raging across the south of the UK, over 200,000 people were tuning in to a livestream of airplanes battling the winds as they landed at London Heathrow.

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