Something happened today that has never happened in my years of flying - the airplane I was in was hit by lightning. Or at least that’s what we were told.
I was flying from Boston to NY on the Delta Shuttle, and we were in the clouds. The weather in the northeast today is terrible. The flight was really bumpy and we were jumping around, and I was having a hard time working on my laptop.
I looked out the window, I was in a seat near the wing, and all of a sudden there was a flash and a really loud BOOM! It felt like watching a canon fired at a reenactment, with that feeling of reverberation. You could feel the plane vibrate at the shock of the lightning. I think it hit on my side. I was looking right at it, I might have an ability to summon lightning.
So of course everyone stopped what they were doing and gave the "what the (expletive deleted) was that?" look. One of the flight attendants who was sitting (the pilot made the attendants sit) turned to me and said we were just hit by lightning.
I have to be honest, for the first time in my life, at least that I can remember, I was a little nervous.
Of course, IF I am going to die, the most lucrative is to die in a plane crash while traveling for work. In fact, the MOST lucrative is to get mugged on a plane flying in a dangerous country, for work, that crashes. That way I get hazard pay, assault that leads to death, and a death resulting from an airplane crash while at work. For many of us, our companies offer free life insurance that goes up if death occurs while at work. I told Patti that if I have a heart attack while mowing the lawn, to put a briefcase in my hand.
Anyway, we landed fine and no harm was done.
PS. I have some pictures I need to post, and some interesting things I need to write about, but I have been on the road Monday AM to Friday night. Working way too many hours for a good looking guy like me. I'll get to it soon though.
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