It is not uncommon for a plane to be struck by lightning. But someone captured a plane apparently being struck by not one or two but three lightning bolts at once!?
The video of the incident is going viral. Mirror UK reported that the aircraft was flying over central London and was on its way to the Heathrow airport amid the stormy weather.?
The short clip starts with the plane emerging from the dark clouds and being intermittently visible when suddenly three bolts of lightning seem to converge on the plane and strike it as the plane tried to navigate its way ahead in the stormy weather.?
¡°What a moment to get the camera out. When I watched it back I thought, ¡®Oh my God it¡¯s hit the plane. Flipping heck,¡± Mirror UK quoted an eyewitness as saying.?
One user commented, ¡®It was such a large bolt it looks like it hit the floor. I just hope no one was hurt. It looked like it just missed St James¡¯ Church across in Bermondsey.¡¯?
According to the report, no one is likely to have been hurt or injured in the incident.
It is common for commercial aircraft to be hit by bolts of lightning every single day.?Last year, there was another case where lightning struck too close to someone, and if not for their umbrella, they might not have survived.?
McNeill, a guidance counsellor at the Academy for Technology and Academics in Conway, South Carolina, went out with an umbrella while the skies were stormy. No sooner did he get out, he was struck by lightning. The entire incident was caught on camera and McNeill was lucky to have escaped the deadly lighting, thanks to the umbrella he was carrying.?
Reportedly, he was going to his car, when on his way when? lighting came in his direction and struck him umbrella down. McNeill himself shared the ¡®shocking¡¯ video on Facebook.
He posted, ¡®Cameras caught my crazy experience with lightning. Supa thankful to have been able to motor scoot out of there without major injuries.¡¯
"I took a chance and I said, 'I hope I don't get struck by lightning'. I felt a shock. It was just kind of insane for it to happen like that. I was just trying to get home and get something to eat," WMBF had quoted him saying at the time.?
There is indeed no knowing when and where the lightning strikes.?Sometime ago, strong winds forced two parked planes at Doha Airport to collide.?