“While filming the line of planes all stacked up during a ground hold in Atlanta on 8/18/15,” he wrote in the YouTube post, “I happened to capture this direct lightning strike on a 737.”

(See video of the lightning strike here.)

It was not immediately clear if anyone was on the plane at the time of the strike.

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Travelers wait in Concourse F, the international terminal, at Hartsfield-Jackson airport in Atlanta on Wednesday, June 4, 2025. (Arvin Temkar / AJC)

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