lightning strikes an airplane beechcraft king air 200

[RyanCJ3]

Not a King Air 200. It is a King Air 90.

[turkishsoldierbaran]

missed it by that much

[73Xtian]

if lightning strikes a car nothing happens... why would it be different with a plane??



[yoyoyoyoshua]

pilot must have sinned so god punished him.

[rietveen26]

@yoyoyoyoshua really?

[oldfart387]

Bet that made the pilot's sphincter pinch!

[eternalnate]

nice cap!

[8bennugent]

Zeus most have a real cruel sense of humor.

[coolalex766]

@8bennugent you can say that again lol

[nomorewhat]

umm gota say 1 think... if you are watching the plane you say " OWNED" if ur in the play u say " wow wdf was that ...holy s___ i just got struck...ah w.e"

[cjellwood]

Lightning can still put a hole in the plane so it is not 100% safe to get struck

[anudeep1985]

lightning strikes come from the ground not from the clouds. the ground is negative and the sky is positively charged. its called electron flow. and planes are fine if hit by lightning. yes they are good conductors of electricity, but through design, the lightning basically releases back into the atmosphere after it flows through the skin of the airplane..

[SlashTruck]

did something wrong happen to the beech or it's just normal??

[TheFrankVenom]

If people are wondering why it didn't really effect the plane, it's because, like, let's say that you're sitting in a plane, but on the ground still, and lightning striked the plane, you'd get electricuted on the ground because Lightning runs through the ground, and when you're in the air, it has nothing to run through other than one wing to the other.

[slaneyboi]

@TheFrankVenom That's incorrect, it couldn't get to the ground anyway becasuse of rubber tires. Electricity doesn't neccessarily need to be earthed to electrocute you.

[SimoWill75]

@slaneyboi That's incorrect, Lightning does need to ground out**, but it can pass through objects (plane, person, tree, etc) on it's way to the ground.

Lightning jumps a gap of a mile or two(air), but it won't jump a couple of inches around a rubber tyre? Sorry, wrong.

** The only exception is CC lightning.. or Cloud-Cloud lignting, where one cloud is a Virtual ground with an opposite electrical charge to the other cloud.

[smallvllleowns]

@SimoWill75 lol noob lightning cant go through tires

[Ibrahim66gg]

fake?

[awesomelightning]

nice

[todivodi]

pretty cool it freezes though when it hits

[wiiluigi1998]

i think that might have been ghost lightning hitting the airplane

[Audi2000t]

lightning strikes come from the ground not from the clouds. the ground is negative and the sky is positively charged. its called electron flow. and planes are fine if hit by lightning. yes they are good conductors of electricity, but through design, the lightning basically releases back into the atmosphere after it flows through the skin of the airplane..

[nzgeo101]

unless its a composite plane? dont talk out your ass.

[jackryanx105]

the lightning will do jack shit normally but sumtimes will damage rivets , or ballbearings. rarly instruments

[DamagedF0X]

I think that's what the static wick is for, right?

[KDAY24]

actually what you saw was the plane emitting whats called a positive streamer towards the main channel of electric current in the strike. streamers usually only show up on film or video clips if you look close enough.

[phoonjzc]

what is positive streamer

[sirius236]

doesnt it just pass thru the plane if it is electronicly bonded properly

[snoloflo]

most planes yes

[MrKidneyStoned]

that was pretty cool. out of curiosity, shouldn't that destroy a craft and cause it to crash? or does it just throw off the instrument panel and cause some dysfunction within the craft?

[clubpenguinhaka]

Actually, most planes are outfitted with special panels, which throw the lightning down to the wing, or nose.

[felipe1994pw]

the most you are going to lose is all electrical power

[akatave00]

which is the engines as well, dont forget about spark plugs

[djmaster1995]

Nah. Jets are made to be stiked by lighting... Its a safety thing

[MrTaker20]

@djmaster1995 yeh. but they are protected only from negavitve lightings tha is 95% off all of them. other 5% are dangerous for lanes becuse they are positive. and they inside heat is about 5 times biger than the suns(i dont realy know how to say) whell what ever. its not the midle umm. like athmosphere..

[cheesemaster1000]

@djmaster1995 Incase you hadn't noticed that wasn't a jet.

[cjracer1000]

@cheesemaster1000 Even small Cessna 172s can even handle lightning.

[MrShayneOneill]

@cjracer1000 Yep, my dad used to fly a cessena for the flying doctors (australia) back in the 70s, and he got hit a couple of times. Didn't do a spot of harm to the plane, although the old man reckons it left his hair standing on end lol. You wouldn't want a gas leak though...

[BrendanTaylorrulz]

@djmaster1995 lighting?

[wcolby]

The main bolt or channel is clearly visible. There is a "branch" that leaves the main channel, strikes the tail of the airplane & continues to the lower right.

Thanks for watching, Walt

[picktownfball72]

no, actually what you saw was the plane emitting whats called a positive streamer towards the main channel of electric current in the strike. streamers usually only show up on film or video clips if you look close enough.

[manifestgtr]

bingo picktown....this plane isnt exactly getting struck by the bolt....it found something else first....its pretty likely, actually almost a guarantee that the plane missed getting fully struck by a few milliseconds...but airplanes were designed to be able to withstand lightning strikes to a certain degree since theyre zippin around up there....i once heard that the average airliner gets hit by lightning once a year give or take a little....not a big deal in the grand scheme of things...

[dizzyliz1965]

don't you mean almost strikes a plane?