heathrow

See a Plane Get Struck by Lightning

Max Read · 05/11/11 08:39PM

This video of an Emirates flight getting hit by huge tendrils of lightning on its way in to land at Heathrow Airport was taken last month, so it's a bit too early to add to our list of this week's scary airplane "incidents." (Also, no one aboard was hurt, and the jet landed "with not even a scratch.") Even so, it makes us glad that you fly on the inside of a plane, and not standing on top. Update: The video has been taken down, but you can see it here. [via Daily Mail]

The Eagle Has Stranded

Brian Moylan · 12/21/10 06:45PM

[Thousands of people are camped out in European airports like London's Heathrow because of the giant snowstorm that's crippling travel in the region. Image via Getty]