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Lightning strikes a plane. Warr’s video shows lightning striking the aircraft while it was parked at the gate. Commercial aircraft, such as the one in the video, are hit by lightning only once ...
In 1967, the FAA updated airworthiness standards for transport-category airplanes with requirements that fuel systems must be designed to prevent the ignition of fuel vapor within the system by lightning strikes and published guidance related to that requirement. Further requirements to protect the aircraft from lightning were enacted in 1970.
Loganair Flight 6780 was a scheduled domestic flight from Aberdeen Airport to Sumburgh Airport in the Shetland Islands, Scotland.On 15 December 2014, the Saab 2000 operating the flight was struck by lightning during the approach, and then plunged faster than the aircraft's maximum operating speed.
Pages in category "Airliner accidents and incidents caused by lightning strikes" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
A viral video shows a dramatic moment when lightning struck the tail of a plane at São Paulo-Guarulhos Airport in Brazil. The aircraft was attached to a jet bridge at the time, and the footage ...
Consequently, the current from a strike merely "passes" through the wrapped tube, through the wings and leave the plane. h/t Lonely Planet RELATED: Foods you should never eat on an airplane
LANSA Flight 508 was a Lockheed L-188A Electra turboprop operated as a scheduled domestic passenger flight by Lineas Aéreas Nacionales Sociedad Anonima (LANSA, a Peruvian airline company) that crashed in a thunderstorm en route from Lima to Pucallpa in Peru on 24 December 1971, killing 91 people – all six crew on board and 85 of its 86 passengers. [1]
The Delta Airlines plane carrying 117 people was sitting on the runway at Atlanta International Airport waiting for take off, when a strike of lightning hit the plane's tail. Despite the ...