Plane hit by lightning
Lightning twice struck a National Airways Corporation Friendship aircraft during a flight from Wanganui to Wellington yesterday afternoon. No damage was reported, although the aircraft, which was flying at about 8000 ft at the time, came down to a lower altitude for the rest of its journey in an effort to prevent a recurrence. The noise inside the aircraft when the lightning struck was rather like the noise one would expect if the fuselage was hit by a large boulder, a passenger said.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33047, 14 October 1972, Page 16
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