Actual Footage | JUMBO JET Gets Hit with lightning

[hoogalabugala]

i believe that the plane was struck, but if it was, then why did the bolt continue downwards? just wondering

[xrayfishx]

@hoogalabugala I think it has something to do with the fact that the plane cant contain all that electricity.

[xrayfishx]

@hoogalabugala look a few pages backwards and there is the real answer

[hoogalabugala]

i believe that the plane was struck, but if it was, then why did the bolt continue downwards? just wondering

[funnyquacker]

In Soviet Russia planes shock lightning....

[mharrop396]

looks like it got hit a few times....

[circuitprotector]

Apparently it was a problem in the early 60's

[tetramoo]

Faraday cage effect...!

[metadera]

but it dont cares.. Because as long as the jet do not touch the ground nothing would happen

[sedwarg]

@metadera nothing would happen to the people inside even if it were on the ground! The planes metal body would act as a faraday cage

[metadera]

@sedwarg yeah precisly, just like a car.!

[sweetsongman1]

the bolt went into the nose traveled through the plane and out the tail. i can believe this cause since planes are hit by lightning all the time.

[roockoo]

@boxtop22 well there u go, if u were to have said that in the first place, i wouldn't have commented in the first place. Well done

[roockoo]

@boxtop22 Are you retarded? It doesn't go through the plane, it goes around it. If it were to go through it, everyone would of been dead, or at least the place it strook. What happens it that the lightning gets redirected around the plane and then it continues its journey.

[sweetsongman1]

@roockoo EEE wrong. the plane builders thought abotu this. everyoen inside is safe. the plane may have a metal exterior but theres a thin layer of non-conducting material inside the plane. so everyone inside feels nothing

[ConsideratePerson]

airplanes are designed to redirect lightning when struck. No need to freak out about it.

[PielsG00d]

Must've been warm inside.

[Argon382]

Holy Crud!

[CableReadyTechnoSIut]

Lol all these idiots. In no way was lightnign in contact with the plane.

[johnjoe696967]

your the idiot...it's clearly hittin the plane....get 2 the opticians

[CableReadyTechnoSIut]

Clearly huh.... mkay and how is this so clear? Dumb fuck the bolt is not touching the plane. Just because the angle of the camera shows the bolt behind the plane doesn't automaticaly mean its being struck. God you must fall for mind freak type bullshit huh?

[joshposh70]

it would hit it idoit ever heared of lightning hits the higest object, you got 15 i.q or somthing?

[axis87]

Your a fuckin retard

[SweetnNaughtyGirl]

@CableReadyTechnoSIut your a really dumb cunt

[roockoo]

@CableReadyTechnoSIut it really is getting struck... but no worries

[jrazjraz]

@johnjoe696967 It is "you're - not your...duh ?

[johnjoe696967]

@jrazjraz get a life!.correcting peoples grammar PFFFFT!

[tomalom]

@CableReadyTechnoSIut I hate to break it to you but if you watch at 0:20 it would seem as though the lightning is not behind the plane...

[shellcool0wns]

@tomalom no this is because electricity always goes from he highest to lowest point (its kinda like lazy lightning) so when it hit the nose of the plane because it is pointing upwards the electricity goes from the nose (highest) straight to the lowest (tail) thats why it looks like this cause it is took from the back left of the plane..

[TheBeogradSrbija]

What happend with this plane? Did landed normaly?

[juicers1]

a plane i was on once got struck.. no biggie

[lancasterpremium]

lighting meets from some 3-300 feet up in the air they meet some were in the middle so what u see is a streamer coming up and one coming down meeting at the plane if you could slow the video down more you'd see that

[Hickeydog2365]

Not true. It's all relative.  Take a look at the airplane. The lightning enters the front and comes out the back. Relative to the plane, there is a high positive charge on the nose and a negative charge on the tail.

[Flyer745]

nope, Everyone believes this but infact lighting has such a high voltage that if it strikes something it can jump to the ground. Hence why wearing rubber-soled shoes won't don't crap when you get struck

[poopsyproductions]

PLANECRASHLOL these aren't that bad.... planes were built to take it... lol

[hitohane]

That is a nice shot of the plane being hit! Never seen it before, but yeah, no danger.

[ajtails]

Planes often get struck by lightning, you never notice it because the electricty only travels through the outershell of the plane and leaves at the tip of the wings, it never causes damage and probably happens at about every flight at some point.

[Ytwatchbat]

omg gif

[hasnain3pk]

so why u r writing

[Hamster343]

im not

[Hamster343]

Why would they even fly? Usally (or all the time) all planes would be grounded untill the storm passes, imagine if that hit an egine? KABOOM everyone killed

[BrunsAce]

um..in a word..no. There is no explosion risk whatsoever. The plane (all planes in fact) is designed to take a lightning strike. The reason planes usually are grounded is due to the risk or presence of a microburst (downdraft.)

The plane is made almost entirely of metal, so therefore, during a lightning hit, it is just like a wire in a common electrical circuit. Only some sacrificial parts are damaged (aka static wicks)

[sternamit]

@BrunsAce no need to buzzkill the fun buddy

[Heterodyne]

Airplanes are designed to take lighting hits. Notice how the charge moved along the outside of the body?

Learn about a subject before writing about it, you'll end up looking a lot less stupid.

[Hamster343]

WHAT MAKE YOU THINK IM WRITING A PAPER ABOUT IT! dum shit

[patrickakapapoo]

hey hey hey hey hey.......don't call ppl names like that even when u spell "dumb" wrong and you get schooled hardcore on what you just WROTE...see dumb shit you wrote about it so shut up dumbass hamster fucker

[Chuzzlez0x]

Planes are MADE to fly in storms. Someone in my family a flew over a hurricane before, and no it didnt go kaboom, they're still alive.

[Theplanewatcher]

NO!

[zohaibarca]

its looped but only to show like a replay

[bob8984]

HUH THIS VIDEO IS LOOPED 0 STARS

[redfirebome]

its real but looped

[zDANNYBHOY]

definately looped. you can see how it goes dark and the lightning is the same everytime.

[keithlaverty]

Duh

[joshuamichael]

Unless you are under the age of 10, please, for the sake of humanity, do not reproduce.

[cthomson23]

Also the fact the plane is not moving would be a hint too

[AeroGunz762]

I'm speechless.

[planmix]

Faraday cage in action.

[BrutalDeluxe80]

do 747s have static wicks?

never took notice

[dangerousprimate]

happens all the time.

[qwertyplay123]

Hey I saw on a program on discorvery channel that a research conducted showed that the presence of an aircraft actually causes lightning strikes, because of the body of the aircraft rubbing against particles in the atmosphere...or something close to that. my memory's a little hazy.

[duevoltedanilo]

Yes, is true, and is something that happen really often during a thunderstorm. I work for a little airliner that use Airbus A320, you cannot immage how many lightning strike we take every year. Anyway, the worse damage you can find on an hit a/c is an ammount of burned rivets ( often between 5 or ten) but few days ago we found something like an hundred rivets totally burned and jumped.

[jameskool94]

i think he was just replaying the image constantly but good footage

[pfmerc10]

who said lighning doesnt strike twice, i just watched that jet get hit 40 times or so..

[renthead24]

Umm, I'm pretty sure the video was looped...

[bdcp]

you sure it was looped....?

[renthead24]

yeah.

[soccerx21leah]

but it's false that lightning doesn't hit the same spot twice. it's been recorded.

[renthead24]

Ok but in THIS VIDEO it's looped.

[KELBYL]

every plane has at one point in time been dinged with lightning .

[DrVladDracula]

that plane must feel cheap....it just got used.

[traineepilot57]

luckily the flight systems are well.

[lakshmiwynter]

did the pilots hair stand on end?

[redsox76789]

damn lightning used it as a rod basically to travel to the ground

[Maul1111]

lol sometimes the plane will glow after a strike, i think they call it saint ambers glow or sum shit,

[sticklemiss]

St Elmos Fire

[Maul1111]

thats the one, thanks m8 :)

[Theplanewatcher]

saint elmos fire ;)

[charlieboi999]

planes' bodys are design to revert the lightening throuth the rear and down thats why you see it go to the ground

[techdeckmasterson]

my ucle was on that pane not joking

[95ryanman]

Did the lights go out or anything wierd happen

[l3dzeppelin]

lol yeah, what bs he didn't even reply

[95ryanman]

He emailed me

[L1lzk]

wat did the email say? so that the rest of us might know.

[95ryanman]

The lights went really bright and went off. The oxygen masks came out

[l3dzeppelin]

kk, i take it back

[xtream590]

Wrong the electronics on board the aircraft such as radar, radio equipment, navigation equipment such as GPS, onboard hydraulic pumps powering control surfaces and landing gears, on board generators and such exceed the power requirements of gameboys, cell phones and other portable electronic devices.

Transmission power of cell phones particularly pale in comparison to those mounted on aircraft especially when ATCs and pilots require constant communication over hundreds of miles.

[cantina]

It's not a big deal lolz, i was on a jet once and the lightning hit the wing. The wing was shaking a bit nothing more lolz.

[VTflash77]

lightning hits planes pretty often. it usually just burns little holes through the outer skin. not a big deal really unless a lucky shot hits an antenna.

bird strikes make bigger problems believe it or not. a direct hit from those suckers can cause some damage.

[SeraphGhost]

I know it was what I said on account of I have logged over 3 hours playing flight stimulator 2from microsoft. And I expect to be promoted to full capt. any day now. So step off NOOBS!!!!!!

[bigjaw1]

well, I know the pilot who flew the last concorde (no joke) over Scotland, he flew it over his/my hometown. He has logged over 20,000 hours, probably a lot more than that though.

[SeraphGhost]

Lighning hit that plane on account of someone usuing a cell phone, or a game boy, too close to landing. That's why they tell you to turn those things off. Will people never learn.

[IThanatopsisI]

Wrong the electronics on board the aircraft such as radar, radio equipment, navigation equipment such as GPS, onboard hydraulic pumps powering control surfaces and landing gears, on board generators and such exceed the power requirements of gameboys, cell phones and other portable electronic devices.

Transmission power of cell phones particularly pale in comparison to those mounted on aircraft especially when ATCs and pilots require constant communication over hundreds of miles.

[b4k3dbean]

SeraphGhost you are an idiot.

[TaeKwonDodk]

You stupid fuck...

[SeraphGhost]

Did you learn to cuss like that in prison and get so angry over nuthin too.

[candancer21]

hmmm reallly.. did you ever here the phrase...

Drum roll please...

Lighting takes the Least resistive path to the ground ... SeraphGhost, Get off your simulator, take your trash out and get a life! SIms are fun but i'll remember you when i play my PSP on a plane during a storm.

Good Grief!

[xhill]

hear*

[lowellwilson123]

How much damage did that lightning do to the plane?

[ATHGT]

probably nothing

[haterorlover1]

Passenger's we have a lil volt going through the plane please put your seat-belts on make sure you dont lean ageanst any metal

[Jwo32]

Sorry, that should read Faraday Cage

[Jwo32]

If you want to know why you wouldnt get a shock if you were inside the plane look up 'Farady Cage' on Wikipedia

[poppyleighbrock]

Aircarft are in effect a metal cage, anything inside a metal cage when in thuders doesnt get sruck, thats why safer to get in ur car. i watched a documentary about it, look it up

[Beat2PulpUhh]

I've seen a case like this in another video, and I will try to explain what happens. Okay, so the plane isn't on the ground, so even thought the plane was hit with lightning, the passengers might have not even felt the shock. Why? Because if the plane was on the ground, the lightning would stay in that place. But since the plane is airborne, the lightning has somewhere to go rather than staying in that one place. Sorta like what stott737 explained.

[PivotDude51895]

The passengers wouldn't even feel a shock, its absolutely harmless. Remember the Airbus that crashed in Toronto in 2005? Yes? No? Maybe? Well, because they didn't want to blame the pilots ( it was a huge pilot error, by the way) they blamed the plane getting hit by lightning as they were landing.

[Lahma2oo8]

its not a fake, but its looped. So it shows the same 2 strikes over and over again, but it really did happen

[Hotmealssus]

Dude i woulda shat all over myself and turned gay for 5 minutes if I was that plane LMFAO!!

[stott737]

lol turned gay for 5 mins

[MICHAELRG7321]

5 seconds ;)

[AnnilyFields]

It's real, it's a slowdown and edit of two seconds of real footage with Windows Movie Maker filters over it. The original footage (ignoring all the Saint Birgitta crap) is here. watch?v=Eym0uopnIQs

[fartbubbles69]

its fake.. EVERY bolt in that video were the same.. watch closey. its a fony..

[seaspider2]

dude its not fake. there is no proof of it being fake. this happens alot.

[tbwsith]

haha dude, if yu can see that good, yu should've been able to see that They kept showing the same 2 strikes. :P haha :P (moron XD)

[piepoo109]

BAHAHAH!!

Wow you have demonstrated how stupid you are. Look at the video, the plane isn't moving. the clip is showing the same frames over and over.

[canadianboy40]

...the plane apears not to move because the video is paused and the frames are being recycled in slow motion to show the lightning strike, youve just demonstrated how stupid you are.

[piepoo109]

eh... sorry, but did you reply to wrong post? You basically echoed what I said.

[canadianboy40]

looks like i did, i usually get on youtube after work, im a paramedic and work 16 hour shifts, i must have been whiped, my bad.

[stott737]

dude u ever heard of repeative playing

[gish6]

lightnings pose no danger to any aircraft even when they hit one nothing really happens. Electronics of the plane in designed that way.

[stott737]

wat it is that the plane isnt earthed to the earth so cant get affected like.. thats why birds dont get electricuted off telephone wires because they arnt earthed if 1 of there legs touched the ground adn other touched wire then ud say good bye birdy.

[fragmaster14]

its better to say grounded that earthed imao

[stott737]

no its better to use earthed because thats tyhe electircal term u idiot come back when u have more knowledge

[preprockstar]

uhmmm i was gonna go on an airplane next year i dont know about now

[stjimmy1010]

I have to fly to colorado from Utah about once every 2 months and im 14, ive been doing it since i was 11. its really not scary at all

[4163985416]

"i hate people from russia, they allways like wars or something"

what a fucking idiot...would love to break his nose

[alinanazarenko1]

whell i hate what you are

[nenegardencityistheb]

that is soo cool!lol i wonder people inside the plan was hurt!lol

[lloveComedy]

Single bolt is 6 times hotter than the sun is that right?

[MetallicaPalmer]

i don't think so.....

[alexio2611]

LOL IDIOT ^

[lloveComedy]

how dare you tell me that, i'm just asking your to stupid you know that?

[cocoisloco0623]

actually, you're technically right, lightning gets hotter than the sun for a split second, then then almost immediatly cools down. You sir are no idiot.

[lloveComedy]

Thanks :D

[ChaosKnight572]

if a bolt of lightning became 6x as hot or even the same temperature of the sun [over 5,000 degrees kelvin] how could someone survive it...?

[cocoisloco0623]

because 1. They got very very lucky and 2. the bolt cools down immediatly as it heats up. This happens in a fraction of a second. I guess its almost like running your fingers through fire, if you do it fast enough then you wont get burned. Those people got extremely lucky because others get fried.

[wiifanaticnr1]

first of all they cant get fried!!!! they ar e not touching the ground so electricity wont make any efect. just like birds when they are standing on a cable. and second planes have a dispositive that atracts the lightning like big big buildings. so nothing can happen inside of a plane

[cocoisloco0623]

I know i wasn't talking about the people in the plane. I was replying to someone else's comment and reffering to the people that get struck and live. I know that people in buildings and planes are perfectly safe.

[MigEater22]

yeah ur right dude *not sarcastic*

[lloveComedy]

Thank you also Mig bless you guys :D

[alexio2611]

IDIOT!!!!!!  Ahahaha go do some science work or something

[lloveComedy]

I hate people from russia they always like wars or something and by the way don't reply cause I don't like OA person like you also your so stupid.

[ElBarto3131]

wtf? u should get help. Seriously.

[ElBarto3131]

and also it's you're not your. Your is a personal belonging, and you're is short for You are. IE You're fucking retarded ILoveComedy, maybe you should change your name to ILoveToSuckMySelf.

[spikeybeast28]

true

[jindivik321]

on average every commercial jet gets hit by lightning at least once a year, pretty safe but cool to watch

[MercedesCars454]

commercial jumbos r schweet

[yogesh1990]

Wow.... thats awsome

@

weaverflytyer

Do you even know what a SINGLE BOLT can do ?

[1337Jogi]

dont think its a fake

[SOADMC]

FAKE

[o0england0o]

i was on that plane

[Kingcobra123456789]

yeah, OK

[jnukes3]

me to

[cloverfield36]

woah!!! BOOM

[uugabuuga1337]

it aint alot times in row... its just replay D:

[SU1C1DAL1D1OT]

Damn, that plane got hit like, 30 times by lightning......

lol :P

[djshivam]

4times , the video is running over and over again

[soakchips]

i think he knew that

[weaverflytyer]

it was a single bolt, replayed over and over

[SU1C1DAL1D1OT]

i know, it was a joke because it looked as though it was getting hit over and over.... :p

[AyeJAyxx]

its not grounded so the electricity just keeps flowing

[resistance42]

i had that 2 me almost shit myself

[FrothySpoons]

happened to me big bang lol

[gedgar2000]

It's relatively common and *usually* not that big a deal. Horrifying sight though.

[sktr4life2day]

lightning srikes up so because its not in contact with the grond its fine

[crazyantonis]

yes not big deal but imagine what it would be 20000amperes striking and imagine the heat evolved.

ps one c-130 one f-4 and some other planes i don't remember have crashed from lightnings.....

[habibPranks]

They didnt feel anything because the plane isnt on the ground, its just passing thruogh them. Scary tho lol!

[jugglman]

scary and cool

[Freepablo]

I was on a plane that got hit with lightning twice. Both times the engine lit up(Like how in cartoons someone looks like when they get electrocuted) and scared the shit out of me. Even when we got above the clouds the turbulence wouldn't stop for hours. Worst plane ride of my life.

[OGangstaMIKE]

its on a replay

[donkyconger]

planes and jets are purposefully made that when a lightning strikes it goes around rejoins and follows to the ground

[Puppix]

no its strik ethe egroud and nothing happend

[MudvayneGermaniac37]

dude did it fall?

[flcomar]

Actually the plane didn't fall, planes are hit by lightnings all the time but nothing happens, because they are not grounded and the electricity just keep flowing to the ground, the people in the plane are not affected because the Faraday's Cage Effect: the electric flow keeps on the surface of the plane and all inside of it is safe then the electricity goes to the nearest thing in contact to ground or to the ground itself.

[cjracer1000]

besides

the 747 has 4 seperate backup systems

so perttymuch what ever happens ur still gonna keep flyin

[greeny632]

wow, I worship your knowledge!

[Tanishaluvzmovies]

you guys are silly the video was replayed over and over notice how the building is still in the same place on the video every time its hit;)