FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- "We have a report of an aircraft with a lightning strike. Approximately 10 miles out with 75 souls on board." Standing on the solid ground never felt so good. "As we were ...

An Airbus A350 was struck by lightning while sitting on the runway in the midst of an intense storm in São Paulo on Friday. Passengers waiting to board the flight stood and watched as the enormous ...

For airplanes, being struck by lightning is a matter of "when," not "if." The National Weather Service estimates that a commercial airplane will be struck by lightning one to two times per year on ...

Can a plane get hit by lightning while in the air? Kansas City got the answer firsthand on Tuesday, as an American Airlines plane had to make an emergency landing after reportedly being struck.

According to the LOT spokesman, the incident occurred when the Embraer plane was already near Szczecin. Planes being hit by lightning are much more common than you might think. So what happens to an ...

A man was lucky enough to capture this footage of two bolts of lightning striking an airplane minutes before it landed at Heathrow airport. All five hundred passengers on-board the Emirates Airbus ...

YAHOO.COM - If the best you can do when you're caught between the moon and New York City is fall in love--as the treacly eighties pop song had it—it seems safe to say that among the worst experiences ...

A Southwest Airlines plane heading into Denver from Tampa was likely hit by lightning as it descended during storms on Sunday evening. In a statement the airline said Flight 168 “sustained a possible ...

I’m not an anxious flyer, but even I have to admit that the idea of a plane I’m in being struck by lightning mid-air terrifies me. Perhaps it shouldn’t ― after all, the National Weather Service of ...