Lightning strike on A380 during flight caught on video over heathrow

A photographer managed to capture the moment a bolt of lightning struck an Emirates flight as it landed in London.

Chris Dawson, 37, from Putney, south-west London, had his camera and video recorder handy when the A380 landed at Heathrow Airport.

"I saw a storm coming and I thought there could be lightning," he said. "I wasn't expecting it to hit a plane but I just got lucky."

Mr Dawson's house is directly under the flight path to Heathrow airport and he recorded the video from his balcony on April 23, around 7.30pm, with a Canon DSLR camera. "I was lucky there wasn't any rain," he said.

The plane, which is designed to carry 555 passengers, landed without incident.

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