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Uploaded by on Mar 23, 2007

Highly-charged cell over Colombia.

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  • more than a little distubing does this cause many crashes?

  • Not that I know of - it is static discharge. Sometimes an indication of impending lightning. I have been struck by lightning while flying and there is usually little damge to the aircraft. Not, however, a pleasant experience.

  • Shot this over the Andes in Colombia. The "lightening" effect is the result of flying through a highly charged electrical top of a dying ITCZ thunderstorm. Didn't show up on radar (they rarely do in that region) fairly bumpy ride. The "lightening" streaks are on the aircraft's windshield. The bright flash is sub-level in-cloud lightening.

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  • "whatever this is, it's not on the radar..." Man, how many times have I said that :) Getting rocked w/ St. Elmo's and we're not painting anything. Excellent video! I've had it a few times in the 200, just never been able to capture it like that. Thanks for sharing! Best are the lines streaming from the wipers. Last month we had a whole blue cone pointing off the nose...kind of unsettling

  • thanks for replying iv since found a video on youtube its called something like aircrash investigators: all for engines fail, in which a 747 flying at 35,000 feet between britain and western australia has all for engines fail was in 1982, 747's glide ratio 15:1 they made it to indonesia

  • Wow, that's awesome!

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