FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- "We have a report of an aircraft with a lightning strike. Approximately 10 miles out with 75 souls on board." Standing on the solid ground never felt so good. "As we were ...

MOSCOW -- The plane that burst into flames while making an emergency landing at a Moscow airport, killing 41 of the 78 people on board, was without radio communications because of a lightning strike, ...

On December 8, 1963, Pan Am Flight 214 was holding over Maryland, waiting for a storm to clear before landing in Philadelphia. At 8:42 p.m., lightning struck the Boeing 707’s left wing, igniting fuel ...

LONDON, England (WTVD) -- Video shows the moment a huge bolt of lightning hit a plane in England. You see a little white dot in the sky over London and then an ...

What really happens when lightning strikes a plane — and the clever features that reduce the risk of damage Over 7,000 US planes are struck by lighting every year. But chances of danger are low ...

Anyone who has flown through a storm knows that uneasy feeling when turbulence picks up and the sky begins to flash. For many travellers, the idea of lightning striking the aircraft is terrifying. But ...

Kekoa Carvalho was on the flight when he says he saw lightning hit the side of the aircraft.

What steps can be taken to mitigate lightning strikes on future aircraft designs? This is what a recent study published in IEEE Access hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated new ...

Aurora, IL, November 6, 2009 — Lightning strike tests of a helicopter at Eurocopter’s Donauwörth facility have verified the accuracy of finite element analysis techniques for characterizing the ...