JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — While flying with the GEICO Skytypers in a WWII-era plane, Action News Jax photographer Jack Drain captured a hilarious moment of the flight that is already going viral.
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Drain was filming with an iPhone in one hand and Gopro camera in the other while flying in the open-top aircraft. When he let his phone get a little too close to the window's edge, the Iphone was sucked out of his hand and into the clouds in a fraction of a second.
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Drain's instantaneous reaction of disappointment, despair, fear and self-realization are hilarious and obvious in the cockpit video.
Now, the clip is going viral on Reddit under the subforum r/WatchPeopleDieInside, garnering over 53,000 upvotes and 715 comments.
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