What happens when lightning strucks airplane?
Nothing serious happens because the modern airplanes are engineered such that it protects the plane. While traveling by air you may have felt a turbulence that may caused by any factor such as interaction of warm and cold air, uneven air-current and in some less cases lightning. Lightning, itself sounds dangerous, can do a lot damage to every living animal and trees or any property. How does a lightning is formed? lightning is a phenomenon of electric discharge that occurs during the thunder storm. This mainly balances the charges between the clouds or the cloud and ground.so, lightning may strike between the clouds or between cloud and ground. The sudden flash during this phenomenon is a hot plasma that is due the abrupt flow of electron that we actually see and hear the pressure waves from ground. Watch lightning between the clouds at 6200 frames per second in the video below. Credits and copyrights to : Nathan Boor of Aimed Research