A video of a pilot capturing the emotional moment of her mom boarding one of her flights for the very first time has melted hearts on TikTok.

The clip was posted by Sydney Rae ( @pilotsydneyrae ), a 31-year-old Canadian pilot with British citizenship who is based in London, the capital of the United Kingdom. The clip shows her waiting at the aircraft doors as her mom steps on board.

In the clip—viewed more than 440,000 times since it was uploaded on October 6—the pilot greets her mom with a huge hug as the mother joyfully dances her way down the jet bridge, suitcase in hand. Text overlaid on the video reads: “The moment my mama boarded her first flight with me.”

The pilot told Newsweek: “I’ve been flying for easyJet [a low-cost U.K. airline] since Nov 2024, started flight training

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