{"id":68015,"date":"2021-02-21T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/alaska-airlines-inspecting-flight-after-lightning-strike-near-sitka\/"},"modified":"2021-02-21T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T07:30:00","slug":"alaska-airlines-inspecting-flight-after-lightning-strike-near-sitka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/alaska-airlines-inspecting-flight-after-lightning-strike-near-sitka\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska Airlines inspecting flight after lightning strike near Sitka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alaska Airlines is inspecting an aircraft that was struck by lightning flying from Juneau to Sitka Sunday evening, said a spokesperson for the airline.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Flight 70 from Juneau was struck by lightning on descent into Sitka. The Boeing 737-700 landed safely in Sitka,&rdquo; said spokesperson Tim Thompson in an email. &ldquo;Jet aircraft are designed to withstand a lightning strike and what the passenger saw\/heard was most likely the lightning discharging from the aircraft through static discharge wicks on the wing.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Lightning strikes occur most commonly on planes in clouds, and damage can vary significantly from none to significant, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tc.faa.gov\/its\/worldpac\/techrpt\/ar04-13.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to the Federal Aviation Administration<\/a>. Alaskan Airlines has standardized procedures for lightning strikes, Thompson said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;When an aircraft has a lightning strike, the aircraft is taken out of service,&rdquo; Thompson said. &ldquo;This aircraft has already been ferried to Seattle for inspection.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8226; Contact reporter Michael S. Lockett at (757) 621-1197 or mlockett@juneauempire.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An inspection is the airline&rsquo;s standard procedure after a strike. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":68016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[75,564],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-68015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-local-news","tag-severe-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68015"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=68015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}