Lightning strikes Qantas aeroplane

[LetsGoTallShipz]

That plain was made like a boss :p

[ClubLifeMixHD]

I love how the plane reacts like nothing happened. . . BOSS

[fsx737200]

i can hear a wrx in the back ground

[EATFOODstudios]

I've been in a qantas 747 when it got struck by lightning and nothing happened aircraft are designed to withstand lightning

[shaykskandar]

the pilot must of been Mr T '' is that all you got FOOOL''

[MrToiletclogger]

zapdos used THUNDER!...

Not very effective!!

[jasonteng1778]

Tstdgfc

[alexanderSkaSk8]

u mad zeus?

[jamcrane3]

I'm curious if the glowing ball behind the aircraft is a flash effect on the camera, or if it indeed is a manifestation of ball lightning.

[RickyGandTheGoblins]

@jamcrane3 Im curious as to why you feel compelled to use such complex words

[jamcrane3]

@RickyGandTheGoblins

What complex words? I haven't used any words that are not commonplace in the English language.

[SORAPAPAGOGO]

Oh━━━━━━Σヾ(ﾟДﾟ)ﾉ━━━━━━ !!!!

Is aeroplane OK?

[jamcrane3]

@SORAPAPAGOGO

The airplane, as a giant aluminum tube, is an excellent conductor of electricity, therefore the lightning passes unimpeded through the aircraft, and no damage is done. Lightning only causes damage when it encounters resistance. Also, all of the vital systems of the aircraft have circuit breakers that trip when the systems are overloaded, and there are redundant circuits as well.

Many rocket launches draw lightning strikes, and they too are similarly protected.

[SORAPAPAGOGO]

@jamcrane3 Thanks for the clarification.

It all makes sense now ♪(^∇^*)

[WhiteboyOfUS]

Ahh shit, i blinked!

[Pikafan2132]

Zapdos tried to struck the plane but he failed at it.

[J4M3SPR]

looks like something fell off the plane

[ezzyiam]

that's a lightning!.. for all the stupid idiots that didn't know what it was....just saying

[josyula547]

For the Facts

The plane was not damaged because of the Gauss law .

[Chris40679]

Meanwhile in australia...

[BrendanTaylorrulz]

zapdos used Thunder! it doesn't effect the wild aeroplane! :)

[patrickheijst]

God uses thunder!

...It didn't affect enemy airplane...

[86thefreeman]

@patrickheijst A WILD BOEING APPEARS!

[TheHeavensSpear]

oh shit!

[djicecream223]

Ya, I'm gonna go film my cat until he virtually combusts.

[iLoveEatingPie]

...and not a single fuck was given that day.

[TheHatman32]

fuck yeah...

[a3l3e3j3o]

Ha, I bet ZEUS might be wanting to change his skills!

[jamesrware]

That's one lucky Aussie. Glad he made it.

[iLoveEatingPie]

@jamesrware planes are designed to withstand such events, there was no threat, move along people

[jamesrware]

@iLoveEatingPie I know- it just looks scary. Besides I like Aussies. They're nice.

[ManagFTW66]

celtics suck but the heat acted like they saved the world..omg hideous display

[doctordrew66]

The hull of the aircraft acts as a Faraday cage and no charge is felt within the plane (or car for that matter.) The charge passes over the surface of the aircraft and carries on towards earth. Absolutely no charge is felt within the cage. The bright light at the rear of the aircraft will have been a protrusion such as an aerial acting like a solid conductor. This would have a resistive effect on the flow of charge and become very hot, very quickly and burned away.

[Vooragp]

at 0:08 you can see the brilliant engineering against such strikes that polarises at the tail

[Tlusion22]

im the juggernaut bitch

[Sirmetak]

0:27 Kid Voice.... "Are They Gonna Die?"

[Jacobgamesandreviews]

The plane has flake jacket.

[insanity1997]

amx_godmode plane [ON]... :]

[candr]

Aircraft have constantly been struck by lightening, but the skin of todays crafts are good conductors of electricity. As a matter of fact the last plane to be hurt by such a strike was 40 years ago.

[MoosaiLuver]

God: HAHA!! iMMA DESTROY YOU, SILLY QANTAS FLIGHT!

Qantas: *Is hit with lightning* ...

God: ... HOW?!

[KOLIN25]

so the airplane just kept flying...........goood.

[sapfirewand]

0 HP lost

[MySweetParadigm]

@sapfirewand LMFAO

[toket27]

@sapfirewand best comment for this vid ever HAHA

[pR05t0]

@sapfirewand lol

[greenl39]

@sapfirewand Ha!

[TheDylanJoyce]

The plane knows that feels good!

[Romerjon17]

Qantas is ***** rated flight :D :D :D

[TheOzzeetantrum]

I wonder what it looked like to the passengers! My goodness!

[TimTheDayWalker]

jeeezus! that was insane

[makky123]

Well I suppose airlines are used to strikes... boom boom.

[MrSuperDoepie]

wtf :O 

[shadowhunter388]

The pilot was falling asleep on the job again. This time he was woken up.

[Chev427BB]

@shadowhunter388 then he immediately died of a heart attack

[shadowhunter388]

@Chev427BB Good thing auto pilot was switched on.

[bvsgnova]

wow quantas didn't fail this time !!!!!!!

[Halo3odust]

It's Zues he is trying to get revenage

[crazyhobo113]

Bass chanter, lightning can strike in mid air. My Cessna Stationair got hit. I am also a commercial pilot and my Boeing 747-400 got struck while on final approach into KLAX.

[DeadlyInertia]

@crazyhobo113 I don't even think you fly, no offense.

[Slaterator]

Nice rare stuff. Great !

[22skateboardlover]

lightning can strike a plane on one end the bolt will travel thright the shell of the plane and come out the other end, like it strikes the bak of the plane comes out of the nose. pause the video on time and u an see it

[SmFTaZeR]

God just said watch the fuck out!!!

[3TGV]

did the plane crash after the lightning hit it? please respond

[rambocivilairpatrol]

@3TGV a plane is built to handle lightning strikes. the lightning goes in the skin of the plane and out of one of the communication antennas. the only problem they may have had was a minor electrical brown out.

[DTRAVELZ]

Anyone notice that burst of electricity that shoots out the back of the plane for that split second and hangs there. Bizarre.

[jboycub7]

yeah, so what, i was onboard a plane looking out the window at the wing, and I saw a huge flash of light on the wing, sort of pink-ish and the whole plane shook, that was lightening, who cares?

[jo951000]

How come nothing happened to it?

[MeanGene79]

@jo951000 Because airplanes are built to withstand lightning strikes. I've experienced a lightning strike on takeoff. It's scary, but nothing to be overly worried about.

[Grizli12345]

@jo951000 coz planes are made to withstand that, they almost take no damage :P

[AnimationAnimater12]

aeroplane? 

[priceclairtyson]

WOW!!! THAT WAS SO COOL!!!

[DjHardaFasta]

wow that must of been some distance away from you for the thunder to take that long!

[BassChanter]

Lightining doesnt strike in mid air ffs. Only on the ground.

[yokden]

@BassChanter

Hate to tell you basschanter it does strike in the air and it puts holes in aircraft.Worked on dozens of them.

[BassChanter]

@yokden Lol okie. I still enjoy flying XD

[TirianB]

@BassChanter Lol. Do you think it is only dangerous where it hits the ground, and not in the air? A lightning is a huge spark, and a spark is equally hot and dangerous along it's entire path, not just at one of the ends.

[BassChanter]

@TirianB well, believe it or not, i was in America doing some stuff for a few weeks and you know how America has some awesome storms? I saw a tree burn down out of my Hotel Window... so thats why i assumed. I'm no science expert... infact, i make music (check my channel) so i'm a bit of an idiot when it comes to science XD

[yoyoyoyoshua]

@BassChanter lightining does it can fly cloud to cloud or cloud to ground.

[smilehappyme]

Then it shockes you!

[OoYesIKnowOoYesIKnow]

Hey, man,

Send this vt., to Rolls Royce, they'll be wondering what happened to their jet.

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Cheers.

from,

del-boy.

[gregbails4]

Whoa!1!!1 da dang pl4nE git struck whit da litenin!!11!!

[Rayvittum]

suck on that rain man

[Legowelshy]

Good job those planes have protecting things or the people inside would be French Fries.

[portinaribe]

@Legowelshy - Yes, man... I hear you... !!!

[CaptainNapalm666]

@Legowelshy Or barbecued shrimps :)

[chipmunkchristy]

@Legowelshy More like roasted weenies

[superearthbender]

@Legowelshy *stops eating french fry...*

[Airforceproud95]

@Legowelshy haha that was very clever

[mrpvr876]

planes are ment to be hit by lightning kinda like a lightning rod such as the empire state building or CN tower bu i think it would break your hearing they must put something in the plane to prevent that considering hat its loud enough at 8 miles away

[mightymax1983]

@nastasepatrucase Wrong. Planes have a tendency to build up charge due to negatively charge ions on the ground during take-off. Simple physics will tell you that storms naturally build up positively charged ions. Positive ions attract negative ions to create a current flow of electrons (i.e. a lightning bolt.) Static wicks cause negative charge bleed-off during flights in order to prevent an airplane from completing a closed-circuit between the storm and the ground.

[OoYesIKnowOoYesIKnow]

Hey you were fortunate to be filming then.

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Was it a new camera?

.

What sort is it? please; such a great zoom, and no tripod, either.

Cheers.

from,

del-boy.

[300man04]

@nastasepatrucase ok then. you seem to know alot about this stuff.

[ATiME2100]

modern planes made from metal which will not allow the passengers to get hurt it (prevent) the lighting to reach inside.

[300man04]

@nastasepatrucase really? then how did over 100 people die from a lightning strike on 707 in the 1960's?

should i also mention that static wicks wernt a requirement until after the disaster?

[LeonGibson]

pause at 0.07 !

[MrBiggs099]

hmmm i guess Marty mcfly never made it back to 1985.....

[gastonibarlucea]

Rainman it's going to be so disappointed

[amazingwave]

So Gabriel Iglesias lied?

[300man04]

@jungjiyoo

Did you notice that the plane was untouched? Its because of the static probes. They keep lightning from doing any damage to planes. Every plane has em

[jungjiyoo]

Thanks for posting...this vid makes an aviophobia like me feels much better. I've always know it's safe , but seeing it by my own eyes is much better.

[orc104]

oh!! grate hit by quantas!!

[TangaraG33]

Is that a 767?

[SonnyA89]

that was the lamest whoa i've ever heard in my life.

[alejo333]

AWESOME

[PurpleParadePB]

sky: IMMA FIRIN MAH LAZOR!!! airplane: IMMA FUCKIN YOUR LAZOR!!!!

[jnote87]

0.07.5 sec

[MickG3]

It looked so calm, suddenlly a flash of lightning the plane is a centre of attention. l must admitt the plane is still flying in this clip. This must be a current thing when planes flying thru storms.

[BreakdownBru]

I think I hate to fly more now.

[theBDS94]

GREAT

[Sleddog116]

Whoa - I hope the plane's radios weren't disrupted overmuch.

@ericsandmeyer: I'm a flight sim enthusiast. I video random planes all the time.

[miss212AUT]

SCARY! 8|

[Ap1nK]

'wow'

it's same on what happen when I went back from Denpasar to Melb. I was on Garuda Indonesia and all the way from DPS to Melb. that I can see outside the window was lightning.

[Gustaffo07]

'wow'.

Understatement of the year.

[fenriz218]

Qantas 1: God: 0

[OoYesIKnowOoYesIKnow]

@fenriz218

Dear Fenriz,

Qantas 1: God 0: al-Qa'ida 0.

[NJAceSgt]

@fenriz218 the owner or builder of the Titanic said that not even God could bring down the Titanic, now look where it rests today.

[FlameThrash900]

@fenriz218 u mean red and white flying kangaroo 1 god 0

[1971Jeffro]

@fenriz218 ...... Qantas 16 God 0

[DIMATIF]

@fenriz218 UPDATE! Qantas:2 Rolls Royce:1 God:1

[shadowhunter388]

lol Just a nice Lovely calm flight and BOOOM! Brown Liquid all over passengers pants.

[CanberraUser]

Shit

[tombeal5]

That is just FUCKING AWESOME.....!

[ericsandmeyer]

Fake. Why would a person just randomly video tape a plane?

[kraeckelium]

@ericsandmeyer

Well just like they did on... let me take a good example... 9/11 !!!!

[AccountNotFound]

@ericsandmeyer if he likes planes he might and i hate you pricks that see something rare and just type " ITS FAKE" prove its fake and I will beleve you

[kurfew007]

@ericsandmeyer Because we like airplanes and we like flying. I live in southern Indiana and my house lies in the most common flight path that planes take out of Louisville to Chicago and Milwaukee. I take videos of planes all the time because I'm an airplane enthusiast. We're also in the path of some of Louisville's holding patterns and so I often get a few passenger/UPS cargo jets circling my house.

[brandog334]

CNN CNN C N N....

[trongie]

Gears of War Marcus voice "BRING ITTTT"

[Mindraker1]

The plane isn't grounded so it doesn't make much of a difference. And the passengers are within the metal frame of the plane so the electricity gets passed around them anyway.

[yoorabish]

CNN sucks

[VideotekReel]

Too bad that sajosofal dosent own this video anymore, youtube does.

he cant make any money off selling this awesome video cause he no longer owns it. once you post anything here, youtube owns and can sell your videos to whomever they want.

[FalcoBirdman]

that plane took that shit like in u face bitch

[seunketchup88]

Plane gets struck by lightning and says "fuck whatever"

[ddunlap86]

@seunketchup88 planes can't talk shit head.

[seunketchup88]

@ddunlap86 You have no imagination.

[scrap1006]

16 seconds, so the plane was roughly 3.41 miles away.

[imbarisaxy]

can anyone explain how the electronics stay on after such vast amount of volts at once strike the plane? ive always wondered

[Mubble]

@imbarisaxy - Because the lightning travels around the shell of the plane, like a faraday cage and not through it.

[pauloz386]

@Mubble , positive lightning can still be a danger though, as typically they carry six to ten times the charge and voltage difference of a negative bolt and last longer up to ten times in fact.

[VideotekReel]

@imbarisaxy sure..the lightning continued onto the ground. the plane was a mete condiuit along the way. the outside shell is metal for a reason..moments like this.

it didnt take the full brount of all the electricity ..it passes around it on the skin of the plane

[yokden]

@imbarisaxy

Sometimes the electronic do get whacked.Aircraft have the same potential. ie put an electric current at one end and it will pass thru the airframe.Lightning hit the airframe (entry point or points usually) will pass along the fuselage and also exit usually toward the rear.It can cause lots of damage but usually not as much as you may think.Pilots must check all the nav and comms gear and report if any damage.Airframe will usually have a few or many burn marks.Can be minor or severe.

[portinaribe]

@yokden U a pilot? Cool !

[yokden]

@portinaribe No my friend i am an aero engineer though I have flown a few times. I dont visit youtube that much. Sorry did not reply sooner as I just saw you comment.

[ainsleywainsley]

the guy filming's reaction sounds like he sees that every day i would of gone nuts

[algdgadu00]

Got popcorn?

[TheNieker1]

oow my f*cking god.

[redflamescpreturns]

fuck u zeus! HADES AND POSEIDON ATTACK!

[AsianAndrew1993]

the plane is a faraday cage they will be fine

[gloomyoutlook]

got hit twice!

[algdgadu00]

@gloomyoutlook - Gentlemen, we got ourselves a double-play tonight!

[cooldork55]

Cameraman: whoa!....hm im hungry

[cavanfamily12345]

as its posted infront of the yahoo home page, the lightning didnt came from the sky it can from the plane... the direction of the stikes are from the nose of the plane to the sky, and from the tail of the plane to the ground...

[damnfoolstoday]

Plane: What the hell?! Oh hell naw.

[ReindeerForest]

Most of the damage from lightning strikes on planes are minimised due to the electrical bonding on the different components on an aircraft. The entire plane acts as a single body so the lightning flows through almost harmlessly and gets discharged via the static discharge wicks. However, there will be 'holes' where the lightning enters, and exits the plane. Inspections will be done after it lands in order to find these holes so that they would not propagate and cause problems in future flights.

[fogster31]

what if you was havin a dump at the time ????

wud u get a frazzled ring piece ???

[feareign]

@fogster31 probably would have filled up the shitter thats for sure

[MasterJediKyleKatarn]

Jet: that's it bitch? I dare you to try again.

[MrToto14ism]

airplanes have protection from lightning..

[SlicertekPictures0]

Wait a tick! It didn't hit just once. I think it hit at least 3 bloody times!!!

[AFlyingNunofOz]

@SlicertekPictures0

It was the same bolt you ninny.

[TissieBacke94]

when lightning strikes hit an airplane, could that have bad consequences?

[AlexandKelsie]

"IMA FIRIN MAH LAZAR BLLAAAA!!!.... damn it."

[jetairways773]

QANTAS pilot 1: ooh look a thunderstorm.

pilot 2: i hope we dont get struck by lightning.

"rumble"

"awkward silence"

"BOOOM!"

[MTStingray]

Is the puff of smoke at 0:08 a visual look at the sound barrier being broken by the lightning, like you would observe from a supersonic aircraft, or is that something else like the wicks being vaporized?

[stlknowswhy]

@MTStingray trippy

[GileraXR1]

@MTStingray

It's called corona-discharge. You can google that if you'd like :)

Modern airplanes are secure against lightnings since their body acts as a Faraday-cage, therefore nothing happens inside.

[Wadewilsondp07]

@GileraXR1 it wouldnt damage the electrical system in the plane?

[GileraXR1]

@Wadewilsondp07

Theoretically not. The framework would deflect the shock, and force it to run along the surface. In addition,

important systems are always insulated well.

For an overview of Faraday Cage (physics), do a search on it. You'll probably also find some cool vids about it right here on 'tube.

[NiteOwl1224]

wow!!

[sjtom57]

I've heard that's fairly common but never saw a vid of it before. Great footage.

[christicristian06]

0:08 :O

[AMERICANPILOT2]

what a brave little plane! :)

[Opelneuling]

nice shot =)

dude thats crazy. to make it even cooler put it on pause and stop it at :08 its CRAZY. you ca