747 hit by lightning
Posted by JAC on 10/9/2009, 8:09 am


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IRfbC0RHsY



It's a Boeing 747, struck by lightning just after liftoff out of Newark.  It left the airport to the NE and just as the aircraft went in the clouds at 600 feet, the lightning suddenly hit the plane  The covers on the overhead lights came flying off and bounced around the cockpit.   When they landed in Dayton , the only exterior damage was the lens on the port wing navlight and static wicks on the wing were missing.  The video is from a cell phone.

There hasn't been a major air crash due to lightning in the U.S. since 1964.  Airplanes do get hit by lightning (about once a year for the big planes), but protection has improved to the point where lightning does not seriously damage the aircraft.

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