The magnificent moment when a lightning struck an Airbus A330 plane taking off from Keflavík International Airport was captured on video by Halldór Guðmundsson at 8.51 this morning, see below.
The plane, from Icelandic airline WOW, was unharmed and kept on as nothing had happened on its route to Paris.
In an interview with local news site Vísir Halldór said that he had hoped to get some footage of lightning and thunder but got lucky. The plane was a bonus, he explained and described the following noise as a huge explosion.

The magnificent moment when a lightning struck an Airbus A330 plane taking off from Keflavík International Airport was captured on video by Halldór Guðmundsson at 8.51 this morning, see below.
The plane, from Icelandic airline WOW, was unharmed and kept on as nothing had happened on its route to Paris.
In an interview with local news site Vísir Halldór said that he had hoped to get some footage of lightning and thunder but got lucky. The plane was a bonus, he explained and described the following noise as a huge explosion.
