Can a plane get hit by lightning while in the air? Kansas City got the answer firsthand on Tuesday, as an American Airlines plane had to make an emergency landing after reportedly being struck.

SALT LAKE CITY (WKRC) - A plane was confirmed to have been struck by lightning while it was flying. Accordingto the Utah Department of Corrections’ Director of Communications and Government Relations ...

MOSCOW -- The plane that burst into flames while making an emergency landing at a Moscow airport, killing 41 of the 78 people on board, was without radio communications because of a lightning strike, ...

Occurred on April 23, 2025 / Atlanta, Georgia, USA Info from Licensor: "While flying from Asheville to Atlanta on a Delta Air Lines flight, I filmed these clips out the window as a powerful lightning ...

A man was lucky enough to capture this footage of two bolts of lightning striking an airplane minutes before it landed at Heathrow airport. All five hundred passengers on-board the Emirates Airbus ...

ABOUT A TEN MINUTE DRIVE TIME DELAY THERE WE ARE FOLLOWING THAT BREAKING NEWS FROM KCI AND AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT MADE AN EMERGENCY LANDING AFTER IT WAS HIT BY LIGHTNING. KMBC NINE’S MARTIN ...

A Southwest Airlines plane heading into Denver from Tampa was likely hit by lightning as it descended during storms on Sunday evening. In a statement the airline said Flight 168 “sustained a possible ...