traveler
February 22, 2001, 10:05 AM
BRITISH AIRWAYS PILOT STRUCK BY LIGHTNING:
This might sound like a wacky story in a supermarket tabloid, but it's the real thing. In a report released yesterday, British aviation officials said lightning hit a British Airways B-757 on approach to Amsterdam last October, and the first officer, whose arm was resting close to the windscreen, suffered an electrical burn to the chest. The plane landed safely and nobody else was hurt. The lightning strike appears to be the first on record,
at least for airline pilots.
This might sound like a wacky story in a supermarket tabloid, but it's the real thing. In a report released yesterday, British aviation officials said lightning hit a British Airways B-757 on approach to Amsterdam last October, and the first officer, whose arm was resting close to the windscreen, suffered an electrical burn to the chest. The plane landed safely and nobody else was hurt. The lightning strike appears to be the first on record,
at least for airline pilots.