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INCHEON, South Korea, June 25 (UPI) -- A GoPro video purportedly taken aboard a Korean Air flight from Singapore to South Korea shows the plane's wing apparently struck by lightning.
The video, credited to Myagmarsuren Ricci and posted to his YouTube account, shows a purported lightning strike on the left wing of flight KE-644 from Singapore to Incheon June 14.
Planes get struck by lightning pretty often and it rarely does any damage. I saw a Boeing 737 that was struck on the nose by lightning, right on the radar antenna mount. there was a small hole in the radome, about 0.5mm and a small dark spot on the mount where it hit, about 0.3mm. No other damage to the aircraft was noted and the radar and all other electronics were unharmed.
I think you need to actually learn a bit about aviation before posting these kind of things as news. Planes get struck by lightning all the time. It rarely, if ever causes damage.
I have been hit 3 times that I know of, and in another case that I didn't realize at the time in the F-16 it caused some scorching and a small melt in the left AOA probe. In one of the instances I knew of the radar went into a self-test mode and reset. It is, in a well-grounded and arrested aircraft, a non-event.
"The flight arrived in South Korea 7 minutes ahead of schedule."
No word on whether or not passengers' bags were delayed getting to the carousel...
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