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Lightning struck the bow of a Boeing 737 MAX shortly before landing in Panama. Shots from the cockpit of an airplane.

Both the captain and the co-pilot remained calm in a dramatic moment. Shortly afterwards, the machine landed safely at Panama International Airport.

The lightning strike was accidentally filmed by an aircraft mechanic who had the camera on and was taking up the dashboard and cockpit communications. "It scared me. But we are trained and trained for something similar. Plus, it wasn't the first time I've experienced a lightning strike. But it's always a little scary, "

Lightning struck the front of the aircraft at an altitude of about nine kilometers.

Lightning strikes on aircraft are not such an exceptional event. However, due to a physical phenomenon called Faraday's cage, they do not pose a more serious risk. The British physicist Michael Faraday discovered in 1836 that the electric charge is concentrated only on the surface of the conductor, not in its volume.

Airplanes work like Faraday's cage, everything inside is protected from electric shock.