Does a viral video authentically show a "Polish Pilot" landing a Boeing 737 on just one wheel? No, that's not true: The footage of the plane, which also featured a "Mentzen 2025" campaign ad and a "Polski Pilot" logo, was created in a video game. The TikTok channel that originally published it said it was created in the "X Plane 12" flight simulator.
The video (archived here) originally appeared on a TikTok channel named @artanis1983 where it was published on May 20, 205 with a description that read
Polski Pilot ląduje na 1 kole Boeingiem 737 X-PLANE 12 #landing #emergency
According to TikTok's built-in translation that means:
Polish Pilot lands on one wheel with Boeing 737 X-PLANE 12#landing#emergency
This is what the post looked like on TikTok at the time of writing:
(Source: TikTok screenshot taken on Sun May 25 12:36:07 2025 UTC)
@artanis1983 Polski Pilot ląduje na 1 kole Boeingiem 737 X-PLANE 12 #landing #emergency ♬ Mission Impossible - Adam Clayton
X Plane 12 is a video game that describes itself on its website (archived here) as:
A flight simulator built by pilots, for everyone
The Best Flight Simulator for PC, Mac, and Linux
Since its first release in 1995, pilots, gamers, and aviation enthusiasts around the globe in the X-Plane community have prized our first-principles physics, realistic aircraft systems, and the experience that only decades of real-world flying provides.
