{"id":58487,"date":"2026-04-09T22:15:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/58487\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T22:15:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:15:53","slug":"lightning-hits-jet-after-takeoff-lot-flight-forced-into-dramatic-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/58487\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning hits jet after takeoff: LOT flight forced into dramatic return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> A LOT Polish Airlines passenger aircraft was forced to return to Warsaw shortly after departure following a lightning strike during climb, aviation sources report. <\/p>\n<p>The Embraer ERJ-190, operating flight LO-135 from Warsaw to Istanbul, had just taken off from runway 29 and was climbing through 12,000 feet when it was struck by lightning, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a> reports, citing <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/avherald.com\/h?article=53793a84&amp;opt=0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Aviation Herald<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Following the incident, the crew halted the climb and opted to return to the departure airport as a precaution.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/news\/flysafair-aircraft-damaged-in-ground-incident-at-cape-town-airport-photo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">aircraft<\/a> entered a holding pattern to burn off excess fuel, with the landing gear extended, before making a safe landing on runway 33 approximately one hour after departure.<\/p>\n<p>The airline confirmed that the return was due to a lightning strike. No injuries among passengers or crew have been reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"by-user\" href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/journalists\/nijat-babayev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">By Nijat Babayev<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A LOT Polish Airlines passenger aircraft was forced to return to Warsaw shortly after departure following a lightning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[5597,32262,32261,27931,182,181],"class_list":{"0":"post-58487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-warsaw","8":"tag-aircraft","9":"tag-emergency-return","10":"tag-lightning-strike","11":"tag-lot","12":"tag-poland","13":"tag-warsaw"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116377064892692358","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}