Lightning Strikes Qantas Airplane

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That's sooo cool!!!

JPChabert, good call on the effect but you mispelled it. It's called the 'Faraday Cage Effect' and yes it does apply to this situation. :D

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That's only in case they actually notice it, though (they being the crew)...

That's "QANTAS" - no "U". It's an acronym for "Queensland (and) Northern Territory Air Service" - Australia's main domestic & international carrier.

Less than a second. It would disrupt the main board, but because people think ahead, the on-board computers are just that... computers, not computer. There's usually backup ones, just like generators, and although the electricity would cut out for like a millisecond, most people would assume it was normal. As for the plane shaking... even if it did (which it might, but nothing major), I bet everyone on board would assume it was turbulence.

no i mean wont the electricity get cut off for a second or no one would feel a shake??

Well, no, not really. Not unless someone is holding onto a metal pole that is attached to the outside frame from top to bottom. Mostly they don't even hear it, nor see it, unless they're looking outside... even if they were, it would look like a flash of lightning in the distance. Hardly anyone knows when it happens... unless you're on the ground, videotaping, of course!!! The most that happens (except in some uncommon cases) is the lights dim or flicker momentarily.

hahahahha.

well do the people inside the plane feel anything??

It wasn't grounded. It's just a piece of metal, floating in mid-air, so the lightning would cause minimal minimal damage to anything on the plane. Maybe a couple of burn marks on the outside, but that's it. If the plane had been on the ground, and its tires blown or something, the lightning would have blown the plane apart, probably.

Quantas never crashed

- The Rainman

if you slow down the vid, 0:08 looks crazy

there have been something like only 6 people dying from being struck by lightning while in a plane. Most people say that when a plane is struck by lightning, the cabin lights up white for a split second. I don't think you'd physically feel anything though.

wait why didnt anything happen to the plane??

Would you feel anything if the plane was hit and you were in it?

AWESOME !

Correction: thats a Boeing 767.

Dude that is awesome capture! It is should uploaded to the wikipedia!

It was just a mistake on my part for confusing sarcasm with genuine stupidity.

That's ALOT of voltage. It takes 3000000 Volts to travel 1 meter, that was kilometers! Also, very wide lightning strike.

Its orite m8 i gets what you sayin Airbus A330 is the plane and quantas is the airlin 2 totaly different things regardless to weather the airline or what ever builds the plane.

It's a wee bit difficult to pick out irony if you're just reading text. Besides there's so many stupid people on youtube it's not all that unlikely for someone to say that. I've read far stupider.

aw man! very cool! Its not every day you catch something like that on camera, or even get to see it! And the sparks from the plane were a nice touch =). Just for FYI, a plane being hit by lightning is no big deal. Planes are just like cars.They are built to carry the bolt on the outer framing and down to the ground,and the plane keeps going, posing no major threat.All the generators are built on the inside of the plane,so nothing breaks, although you may find a nice dent at the strike area.