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Lightning Strikes Plane in Midair – Caught on Video
A new Emirates Airlines, double decker, Airbus A380 Jumbo jet en route to London’s Heathrow Airport is struck by lightning in midair, and it is all caught on video by a passenger on another plane.
Londoner Chris Dawson was lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time and was smart enough to prepare his camera to obtain some rare footage. The A380 Airbus is capable of carrying over 500 passengers, however they were all safe because lightning strikes are taken under consideration during the design of airplanes.
Jets are designed with a metal outer skin that is designed to absorb lightning strikes, and several planes each year are struck yet they all survive.
Isn’t technology amazing! Even though these airplanes are giants in the sky, they are capable of withstanding direct strikes from bolts of lightning carrying thousands of volts of electricity.
Man Struck by Lightning Caught on Video
A man is struck by lightning and it is all caught on video. What part of the world this happened is unknown. The video is hosted on YouTube and the only words accompanying it are: “Vo cabeceia raio.”
Trying to translate that phrase on several translation sites got us no where, and that includes Google’s translator which translates from nearly 60 languages.
Google also provides a language detector, which stated it is Galician and means: “Ray nods vo.” The only other language that came close is Portuguese, and the translation is the same: “Ray nods vo.”
In Catalan it is translated to: “Vo pitch rayon.” In Galician it can also mean: “Lightning nods see you.”
However, since “raio” can mean “lightning” in Portuguese, I am going with that.
In any event this poor guy really got whopped but good, and it is amazing that he was even able to rise after suffering through such a thunderous bolt of lightning.
