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Fire at Markopoulo, next of Athens airport on Friday 23 May 2025.
🚁🔥✈️ Multiple cameras, several filming locations.

This video captures a dramatic encounter between aerial firefighting operations and commercial aviation, creating a striking contrast between urgency and routine flight.

Against the backdrop of a raging wildfire near Athens International Airport, firefighting helicopters execute precise water scoopings, skillfully skimming the surface to collect massive loads before soaring back into the smoke-filled sky.

Moments later, the footage showcases water drops, where aircraft release torrents onto the flames below, delivering a critical blow to the advancing fire. The coordination and precision of these pilots are nothing short of heroic, as they battle nature’s fury from the skies.

Adding an unparalleled perspective, the video offers cockpit views from landing civil aircraft, allowing viewers to experience what pilots saw as they approached the airport. Through the aircraft windows, the fire’s orange glow spreads ominously across the landscape, an eerie contrast to the calm, controlled descent of passenger planes navigating toward their final approach.

This visual spectacle highlights the dual worlds of aviation—the life-saving missions of firefighting helicopters and the continuous flow of air traffic, coexisting in the same airspace at a critical moment.

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