Passenger Films Crazy Lightning Storm Outside Plane Window

(Video: Lee Carseldine/Twitter/YouTube)

A passenger caught nature at its freakiest this week, on a plane flying into Brisbane, Australia. Lee Carseldine tweeted a short video showing lightning bolts scattering across his aircraft’s wing.

The lightning was part of a huge storm that hit southern Queensland that night, complete with golf-ball-size hail and, according to the Courier Mail, 28,000 lightning strikes.

Every airplane can expect to be hit by lightning about once a year. (Photo: Lee Carseldine/Twitter)

And although it looks terrifying, the lightning didn’t cause any damage to the plane. In fact, lightning is very rarely a problem for airplanes, which are engineered to allow the electricity to pass across the airplane skin harmlessly.

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Even when a bolt punched a whole through the nose of an Icelandair plane earlier this year, the flight landed perfectly safely at its regularly scheduled destination and everyone onboard was fine. That amount of damage is unusual, however, and as in this Australian case, the most eventful part of an airplane flying through a lightning storm is the video posted to social media afterward.

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