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 ...

MOSCOW -- The plane that burst into flames while making an emergency landing at a Moscow airport, killing 41 of the 78 people on board, was without radio communications because of a lightning strike, ...

Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a groundbreaking simulation tool that can predict lightning strikes on modern aircraft and wind turbines. This innovative ...

LONDON, England (WTVD) -- Video shows the moment a huge bolt of lightning hit a plane in England. You see a little white dot in the sky over London and then an ...

It happened just after 6:30 p.m. as Flight 1476 to Fort Lauderdale was set to take off. A spokesperson for Southwest Airlines told 10 Tampa Bay that a possible lightning strike hit the plane while it ...

Aurora, IL, November 6, 2009 — Lightning strike tests of a helicopter at Eurocopter’s Donauwörth facility have verified the accuracy of finite element analysis techniques for characterizing the ...

What really happens when lightning strikes a plane — and the clever features that reduce the risk of damage Over 7,000 US planes are struck by lighting every year. But chances of danger are low ...

What steps can be taken to mitigate lightning strikes on future aircraft designs? This is what a recent study published in IEEE Access hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated new ...

On December 8, 1963, Pan Am Flight 214 was holding over Maryland, waiting for a storm to clear before landing in Philadelphia. At 8:42 p.m., lightning struck the Boeing 707’s left wing, igniting fuel ...

A flight bound for Orlando from the Atlantic City International Airport was delayed Thursday evening because the plane was struck by a bolt of lightning while flying to Atlantic City, a Spirit ...