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 ...

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.

The unusually cold weather across the Northeast this week was the culpritfor the lightning strikes on the planes landing at the PhiladelphiaInternational Airport. Why? The freezing level was only ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — With all thunderstorms comes lightning. Of the various types of lightning, one that ...

THIS is the terrifying moment a bolt of lighting struck a plane mid-flight. Passengers screamed in fear as the ...

The dance of electrical charges high above us is more complex than most people realize. While we typically think of lightning as bright bolts striking the ground, the vast majority of lightning ...

Have you ever shuffled through your living room carpet in socks and touched a doorknob to be met with a pop! and a shock? That’s what’s happening in the clouds during a thunderstorm. Our eyes deceive ...

Inside a charged storm cloud, they become something else entirely. As the electric field pushes electrons faster and faster, they slam into air molecules such as nitrogen and oxygen. These collisions ...