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Video of 747 struck by lightning
It's nice to know that if your 747 gets struck with 40 kiloamperes of electricity that it can keep on trucking. Aircraft are designed to withstand lightning strikes (if not multiple lightning strikes), although various small amounts of damage can occur. As one 747-400 pilot at the Professional Pilots Rumor Network (pprune) commented, "the auto-pilot dropped out and a few minor systems were temporarily lost" after a lightning strike on his aircraft, but shortly after that everything resumed.
Lightning strikes happen fairly often on commercial aircraft, but rarely is the event caught on film. This ANA 747 was hit just after take off, which can be a critical time during operation, but everyone and the aircraft survived just fine.
Lightning strikes happen fairly often on commercial aircraft, but rarely is the event caught on film. This ANA 747 was hit just after take off, which can be a critical time during operation, but everyone and the aircraft survived just fine.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Mario Aug 30th 2008 8:31PM
It is stupid as hell for an airliner to take off during a violent thunderstorm as witnessed on this video clip. Poor decision that could have been costly....
Jack Aug 30th 2008 8:44PM
I've had the experience. St Elmos Fire , a white ball of light(fire) goes down the interior of the plane. It is amazing..
jimmy Aug 30th 2008 9:07PM
WOW
DoctorBob Aug 30th 2008 9:31PM
Great film footage! Amazing someone was there to catch it on tape. Thanks!
TRIPPLE COOL Aug 30th 2008 10:16PM
I can't get the video to play.
erj210 Aug 31st 2008 3:36AM
I don't know why everyone thinks that just because a plane gets struck by lightning its suppose to burst into flames. They build those things better than that.
bob Wong Aug 31st 2008 4:38PM
incredible!!!!!!!!!!