Qantas flight struck by lightning after takeoff

[TheInsider]

Qantas flight struck by lightning after takeoff | News | NT News | Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia | ntnews.com.au

Of course no news are on to this incident straight away!!!

A Qantas spokesman said there were no injuries or threat to the plane after the 717 carrying 115 passengers was struck on the tail this afternoon.
The plan landed at 2.10pm in Darwin and the "minor damage" was worked on by engineers.
The spokesman said a replacement plane would be needed for the return flight which would be delayed by six hours.
The company has been in the news recently with four incidents since November 4th, after a Qantas A380 was forced to make an emergency landing in Singapore after one of its engines blew.

 

[simongr]

Perhaps QF are hiring cabin crew with tooth many fillings or they are giving crew poor health insurance coverage leading to the fillings an thus higher risk of lightning strikes?

 

[samh004]

Sounds like nonews should be giving the weather systems a bashing, not Qantas

 

[Kendall Roy]

*I call on Qantas to sue News Limited for being the scum of journalism and damaging their brand!

*DISCLAIMER: I'm not a lawyer, so please don't bite

 

[drron]

Obviously because of overseas maintenance.

 

[Justinf]

All articles like this do is alarm people for no reason.
Aircraft are designed to take lightning strikes. In fact it is rare for a single aircraft to escape a lightning hit at least once per year.
They don't report those facts though do they?

 

[ozbeachbabe]

All articles like this do is alarm people for no reason. Aircraft are designed to take lightning strikes. In fact it is rare for a single aircraft to escape a lightning hit at least once per year. They don't report those facts though do they?

No they don't because facts don't sell newspapers.

The trouble is most punters believe everything they read in the press and take it as gospel.

 

[pauly7]

No they don't because facts don't sell newspapers.

The trouble is most punters believe everything they read in the press and take it as gospel.

Yes. Very selective, warped facts and stories make it thru especially with no news and skum (sky) news.

Still waiting for the DJ lax incidents to surface hmmmmm. Wish I could draw would at least it would make a great comic, reversing the same plane into a wall twice!

 

[ozbeachbabe]

Yes. Very selective, warped facts and stories make it thru especially with no news and skum (sky) news.

Still waiting for the DJ lax incidents to surface hmmmmm. Wish I could draw would at least it would make a great comic, reversing the same plane into a wall twice!

Yesterday's NT News had a funny cartoon by Wicking with a hand appearing out of the clouds zapping a lightening bolt towards a Qantas plane with the caption "LOL"!

 

[Heleigh]

Yahoo had an article on 35 secrets your pilot won't tell you.

“I’ve been struck by lightning twice. Most pilots have. Airplanes are built to take it. You hear a big boom and see a big flash and that’s it. You’re not going to fall out of the sky.” -Pilot for a regional carrier, Charlotte, North Carolina.

There would be some form of earthing/insulation within the craft.

 

[MatF]

Thanks to everyone's favourite physicist, Michael Faraday

Faraday Cages and Lightning Safety: Physics, Conducting Enclosures, and Protection in Electrical Storms

When Lightning Strikes | Flight Safety Foundation

... and who said school teaches us nothing!