Tag: lightning

Austrian airplane hit by lightning

Post date October 7, 2011

An Austrian Airlines Airbus plane was hit by lightning this morning and had to return to Vienna. Nobody was injured when lightning struck the 6.35am plane from Vienna airport in Schwechat, Lower Austria, to Innsbruck, Tyrol. Austrian Airlines (AUA) spokesperson Patricia Strampfer explained: “That is nothing unusual in aviation,” adding that lightning is channelled off […]

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Cows rescued from fire

General News

Post date June 17, 2011

Twenty cattle were saved after lightning struck at a farm in Lower Austria. Eleven fire brigades consisting of 130 men managed to herd the animals out of the barn just in time. The fire fighters also ensured that the flames would not spread to the adjacent house of the farming family. No one was injured […]

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