The plane was in the air for just minutes before lightning struck, damaging the plane's weather radar and forcing an ...

While the possibility of an aircraft being struck by lightning is rare and does not present a threat to flight crews or pilots, aircraft manufacturers are looking to improve their current level of ...

Lightning hitting airplanes is commonplace and, though lightning has downed several commercial aircraft, it rarely leads to catastrophe thanks to modern protection systems. Subscribe to read this ...

An IndiGo flight bound for Agartala was struck by lightning at Kolkata airport during a thunderstorm, causing a power outage ...

Our study of aircraft lightning strikes determined that engines were flamed out in a total of 5% of the incidents involving turbojets, and in 8% of those involving turboprops. Propellers or spinners ...

DAVID LEVIN: You're listening to a NOVA podcast. I'm David Levin. In June 2009, Air France Flight 447 plunged into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil, taking all 228 lives aboard. The plane's ...

This was the first ever time a two-ship F-35B was spotted at low level in the Low Flying Area 17. Fortunately, photographer Simon Pearson-Cougill was there and took the shots you can find in this post ...

The moment a cloud-to-ground lightning bolt struck an aircraft at low altitude. Notice that the lightning bolt entered the aircraft near the forward part of the fuselage and exited near the tail.