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Direct strike: lightning directly hits the person Orifice entry: may occur if lightning strike occurs near the head entering eyes, ears and mouth to flow internally; Side splash: lightning jumps from the location of primary strike to a nearby person; Contact injury: injury that occurs when a person is touching an object on the pathway of lightning
Pan Am Flight 214 was a scheduled flight of Pan American World Airways from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Baltimore, and then to Philadelphia in the United States. On December 8, 1963, while flying from Baltimore to Philadelphia, the Boeing 707-121 crashed near Elkton, Maryland.
Since the original statue at Solid Rock Church was destroyed by fire, the new statue incorporates fire resistant materials including a lightning suppression system. [8] Following several months of work, the major pieces of the statue were assembled together at the site on September 19, 2012, [ 9 ] and it was dedicated eleven days later.
A lightning strike in Colorado killed a rancher and 34 of his cows in Jackson County on Saturday, adding to the death toll of devastating storms that have swept across the US over Memorial Day ...
A Colorado man was killed by a lightning strike on his ranch Saturday, marking the first lightning-caused death in 2024. The ranch is located near Rand, about 120 miles northwest of Denver.
Roy Cleveland Sullivan (February 7, 1912 – September 28, 1983) was an American park ranger in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. Between 1942 And 1977, Sullivan was claimed to have been struck by lightning on seven occasions, surviving all of them.
Here's another 'shocking' fact: The NOAA reports that about 4-5% of people struck by lightning were talking on a corded phone when it happened. Show comments Advertisement
Contrary to popular belief, the kite was not hit by visible lightning; otherwise Franklin would almost certainly have been killed. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] However, Franklin noticed that loose threads of the kite string were repelling one another and deduced that the Leyden jar was being charged.