An eyewitness accidentally filmed a frightening video of lightning striking an airplane

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An eerie video was filmed by a resident of London (UK) this weekend, watching the bad weather from the window of his apartment.

A man in stormy weather on June 6 made a video of a plane heading to Heathrow Airport . A few seconds after the start of the video, the plane is struck by lightning .

Speaking of the drama video, an eyewitness who filmed it from his seventh-floor apartment on Wapping High Street in central London said: “When I looked at the footage, I thought, oh my God, she hit the plane. I just hope no one gets hurt. »

Fortunately, the video shows the plane calmly continuing its flight.

This is not the first time in the past months that a plane has been struck by lightning during a thunderstorm in the UK . In February, a passenger plane was struck by lightning after flying from Birmingham Airport to Dublin. That time, too, everything ended well.

Experts say that modern airliners are well protected from lightning strikes. When lightning strikes an aircraft, only slight shaking, minor damage to the hull, damage to radio and electrical equipment, which are always duplicated on each side, can be observed.

And yet, despite the effective full range of protection, even newly designed aircraft are prohibited from entering the thunderstorm front. And if lightning does hit the plane during the flight, after landing it is carefully examined for the safety of the hull plating.

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