Ball Of Lightning In Plane
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Ball of lightning in plane. Ball lightning is one of the strangest phenomena on our planet. Seemingly a close cousin of earthlights or earthquake lights though with some distinctive properties of its own ball lightning crops up in the most unexpected places in a letter to the journal nature physicist richard jennison gave this remarkable eyewitness account. 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. 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.
Ball lightning is one of the strangest and least understood weather phenomena. The ball lightning left two holes in the plane. Allied propaganda claimed it had been nicknamed the fork tailed devil german. Lighting strikes airplane and causes panic inside in turkey january 25 2013.
Some nineteenth century reports describe balls that eventually explode and leave. A turkish airlines plane carrying 114 passengers was hit by lightning but landed safely in the western city of. It s usually seen during thunderstorms as a ball of light about the size of a grapefruit with the intensity of roughly a 40w. She was screaming as she tried to outrun the ball lightning.
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. Scientists have observed ball lightning for the first time in nature. 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.