In a spine chilling moment, a Lightning struck the Delta Airlines plane while it was getting ready to take off from the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta international airport this week. The entire incident was recorded in a camera and was posted online.
The recording shows rain drenching the airfield crowded with aircraft, waiting to take off from the world’s busiest airport. The lightning strikes the plane 18 seconds into the 36-second video.
“While filming the line of planes all stacked up during a ground hold in Atlanta on 8/18/15 I happened to capture this direct lightning strike on a 737,” wrote a YouTube poster by the name of Jack Perkins. He posted the video on Wednesday.
Delta spokesman Morgan Durrant confirmed that lightning struck Las Vegas-bound Delta Flight 67 on Tuesday, as the Boeing 737-900R aircraft was in the takeoff queue in Atlanta.
Fortunately, there were no reports of injuries among the 111 customers and six crew. Thanks to modern engineering, ‘the aircraft design allows lightning bolts to be safely redirected, Fuselage structure and industrial-grade insulation acts as (a) super-conductive lightning rod that rechannels lightning around and away from customers and crew and out into the ground via the landing gear.’
