‘Stay Home’: Austrian pilot’s flight path is message in sky during Covid-19 pandemic

A pilot just left this message to the world#StayHome https://t.co/oCkFp13TgT pic.twitter.com/EVb8bXwpJZ

— Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) March 16, 2020

The pilot wrote the message during a 24-minute flight Monday after taking off from an airport in Wiener Neustadt, Austria, about 50 miles south of Vienna, CNN reported.

Austria has reported over 4,668 active cases of the virus as on March 24 with 25 deaths. Here’s how people reacted to the message:

Better than my handwriting

— Steven (@stepri) March 16, 2020

I can do that on my phone with a screenshot and my finger. He wasted a lot of gas.

— Juan Merrill (@JuanMerrill15) March 17, 2020

Was he at home “social distancing” himself when he did this? I mean I can do the same thing with Photoshop from my home office.

— theRoddick (@_jbarker) March 16, 2020</blockquote

in case you’re wondering, it’s not pointless: pilots have to make their flight hours to be allowed to keep flying. So he was gonna have to fly either way, might as well make a statement, I guess.

— Robin van der Ploeg (@Jake_R_G) March 16, 2020

Thats a lot of gas.

— Blux (@luisjrmatos) March 16, 2020

I like how he started block letters with the E and said…”nah, screw this”

— Dusty Lee Cook (@DustyLeeCook) March 16, 2020

The plane is his home… 😜

— Fernando Bellizzi (@belfer70) March 16, 2020

Did he stayed at home to do this message? 😂

— Sergi ‘LiMonetty’ Martínez (@limonetty98) March 16, 2020</blockquote

Drone plane

— Mino (@Minooooooou) March 16, 2020

He could have done that with 0 social interaction.

— Bob Kelzow (@BobKelzow) March 16, 2020

With lockdowns imposed all over the world, several countries have also imposed travel bans and flight restrictions.