Aaron Rheins' 'If an Airliner Hit a Nuclear Reactor' passes 400,000

The hypothetical disaster opened at about eleven times the pace of a typical first day on a channel that was already busy.

Channel: Aaron RheinsStory of September 28, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 1,461,954 views a day, 11 times a normal first day on this channel (128,423).

If an Airliner Hit a Nuclear Reactor

"If an Airliner Hit a Nuclear Reactor" went up on Aaron Rheins' channel on Sunday, and within a day it had passed 400,000 views.

Aaron Rheins' new uploads usually begin respectably but far more gently. This one is running at roughly eleven times that pace. On its own, it is drawing about a third of the views his whole channel collects in a typical day.

That channel was hardly quiet before. Among aviation and machine channels of a similar size, it already pulls far more daily views than CoasterFan2105 or MURPHYS DIESEL. Viewers have left thousands of likes on the video but only a modest stack of comments. The title poses a simple what-if question, and it has plenty of people watching for the answer.

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The numbers

Here is how the airliner video's first day compares with a usual Aaron Rheins opening.

the video's first day

usual first day here

128,423

this video

1,461,954

subscribers

1,510,000

total views

2,357,175,800

views per day

4,194,108

the video

views

408,801

likes

15,487

comments

657

days online

1

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

Aaron Rheins

1,510,000

MURPHYS DIESEL

1,270,000

CoasterFan2105

1,210,000

Captain Steeeve

1,190,000

ALEX THE TRUCKING GUY

1,090,000

Diesel Creek

1,060,000

As of September 28, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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