The Boeing 777-300 incident occurred on Sunday, March 3, 2024.
According to the online publication CityNews, an eyewitness managed to capture the moment when a lightning strike struck an airplane that was taking off from Vancouver airport. The accident was recorded around 19:30 local time.
It is known that the airliner Air Canada was flying to Heathrow Airport (London). At the time of lightning on board the aircraft was 550 passengers.
The footage shows how the blue electric arc hit the airplane while it was gaining altitude. However, the air incident did not affect the stability of the aircraft's mechanisms.
Tragedy did not occur due to the reliable work of the lightning suppression system, specified one of the Canadian pilots interviewed by the publication.
Earlier, a Jet2 passenger got drunk and argued with the flight attendants of the airplane.