Plane Hit by lightning bolt while taking Off from Osaka

mimo2005 · 08-30-2007, 05:05 PM

Nippon jet being struck by lightning bolt in Osaka.

http://technojuice.blogspot.com/2007...olt-while.html

JohnthePilot · 08-30-2007, 05:10 PM

I was in an Air France 747 that got hit some years ago. One of the most frightening experiences of my life.

**1 g0t 0wn3d** · 08-30-2007, 05:16 PM

Did it have to land?

JohnthePilot · 08-30-2007, 05:24 PM

No. It hit the wing and I had visions of it falling off, but there was no damage.

**jaggerwild** · 08-30-2007, 06:20 PM

Notice how the current goes in the front and out the rear of the plain, this explains why the plain did not fall from the sky. Had it found a (good)grounding source the out come might had been different.......

**MunkyPhil** · 08-31-2007, 05:16 AM

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Originally Posted by jaggerwild

Notice how the current goes in the front and out the rear of the plain, this explains why the plain did not fall from the sky. Had it found a (good)grounding source the out come might had been different.......

It did find a good grounding source - the ground, literally. The bolt could not have grounded in the plane. The metal shell of the plane just provided a path of least resistance for a short distance on the bolt's path down to earth. That's why it went through the plane in the first place and that's why it went from tip to tail along the plane - the bolt needed to head downwards along the plane in order to minimize the work done in getting to the ground so if the plane was oriented with the tail up it would have been the opposite.

~~Nik00117~~ · 08-31-2007, 03:52 PM

Had a plane hit my lighting, I was asleep so I only saw the aftershock.

Pilot such said hit my lighting no damage got o sleep.

PLANES SAFE.

Iriathz · 08-31-2007, 07:32 PM

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Originally Posted by JohnthePilot

No. It hit the wing and I had visions of it falling off, but there was no damage.

Woah, that would've been pretty scary. Lucky there wasn't any real damage.

JohnthePilot · 09-01-2007, 02:46 AM

It was scary and it was lucky.

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