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Lightning Strikes Delta Jet in Video at Hartsfield-Jackson
The plane was among a group of aircraft parked on the taxiway as a result of a ground stop on Tuesday.
A passenger on a jet waiting to leave Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport captured a scary scene on his cell phone camera on Tuesday.
YouTube user Jack Perkins was recording a torrential downpour at the airport when lightning struck a Delta jet parked ahead of his plane on the taxiway.
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The jets were being prevented from taking off due to a ground stop order which was in effect because of the heavy storms over the airport.
Delta has not released any official information on which Delta flight suffered the lightning strike.
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“A lightning strike on an aircraft is neither rare nor dangerous,” writes the official blog of Finnair, a Finnish airline. The blog says that the fuselage of most commercial jets is built to act as a Faraday Cage, deflecting the lightning strike away from the sensitive electronics and passengers inside the tube.
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