8/22/2015

Passenger Capture The Instant That A USA's Plane Was Hit By Lightning

According to CNN reports, two days ago Delta Air Lines Boeing 737 was struck by lightning at the Atlanta International Airport stop. The screen is captured wait for the next machine on another plane passengers to Jack Perkins.


As can be seen in 36 seconds of the video, it was then in a thunderstorm, parked on the tarmac waiting airliner. The first 18 seconds of the video, impartial lightning hit the plane's tail.


Delta spokesman Morgan Darrant has also officially confirmed this fact to the media. On board 111 passengers and six crew members, no one was injured.


The plane was hit because of bad weather, delayed two hours off, only more than originally planned to arrive 20 minutes late.



AskThePilot pilots blog owner Patrick Smith pointed out in his article, the aircraft itself is designed to divert lightning energy, the body structure can act as an insulator and industrial superconductivity lightning rod, conducting current through the gear to the ground without passing through the cabin internal, so the body will not be hit leaving traces, passengers will not suffer any harm.


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