Ball Lightning On Plane

However a recorded case didn t occur until the 18th century when georg richmann a pioneer in research on electricity was killed by what s believed to have been ball lightning.

Ball lightning on plane. Ball lightning is a mysterious phenomenon that hasn t been fully studied yet. 19th march 1963 the eastern airlines late night flight ea539 from new york to washington encounters a storm there s a sudden. A ball of sparks about the size of a basketball entered a commercial aircraft apparently through an engine airtake moved into the fuselage and proceeded to chase a flight attendant up and down the aisle. Ball lightning is one of the strangest phenomena on our planet.

Ball lightning is an unexplained atmospheric electrical phenomenon described as luminescent spherical objects that vary from pea sized to several meters in diameter though usually associated with thunderstorms the phenomenon is said to last considerably longer than the split second flash of a lightning bolt. Lighting strikes airplane and causes panic inside in turkey january 25 2013. Ball lightning is an unexplained atmospheric electrical phenomenon. Advertisement perhaps one of the most famous ball lightning sightings was by a young czar nicholas grandson to czar alexander ii who witnessed a flaming orb during a.

She was screaming as she tried to outrun the ball lightning. A turkish airlines plane carrying 114 passengers was hit by lightning but landed safely in. The ball lightning left two holes in the plane. For instance it does not explain how ball lightning can pass through indoor environments like people s homes or inside the cockpit of a plane as was the case in an instance of ball lightning.

It s usually seen during thunderstorms as a ball of light about the size of a grapefruit with the intensity of roughly a 40w. Pictured is the spectrum of a cloud to ground lightning strike and of the ball lightning it generated. Scientists have observed ball lightning for the first time in nature. Red and dazzling white and even blue.