{"id":20943,"date":"2026-06-13T19:45:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T14:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/watch-srilankan-airlines-flight-with-over-200-onboard-hit-by-lightning-lands-back-safely-in-colombo\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T19:45:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T14:15:18","slug":"watch-srilankan-airlines-flight-with-over-200-onboard-hit-by-lightning-lands-back-safely-in-colombo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/watch-srilankan-airlines-flight-with-over-200-onboard-hit-by-lightning-lands-back-safely-in-colombo\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: SriLankan Airlines flight with over 200 onboard hit by lightning; lands back safely in Colombo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-131706448,imgsize-4892946,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/article-5.jpg\" alt=\"Watch: SriLankan Airlines flight with over 200 onboard hit by lightning; lands back safely in Colombo\" title=\"Screengrab from video on social media\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"Screengrab from video on social media\">Screengrab from video on social media<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A SriLankan Airlines flight was forced to turn around on Friday after it encountered lightning while flying to Sydney from Colombo. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"1\"\/>According to reports from local news outlet Daily Mirror- Sri Lanka , passengers heard a loud bang shortly after the incident and briefly saw flames coming from one of the aircraft&#8217;s engines.<!-- --> The crew quickly brought the situation under control.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>A video was shared by the outlet on social media showing sparks as the plane was flying and then landed back on the airport.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/>The pilots later informed passengers that the aircraft had been struck by lightning, causing minor damage to an engine. As a precaution, the flight abandoned its journey to Sydney and returned to Colombo, where it landed safely.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/>Meanwhile, ANI quoted an airlines source to confirm on the turnback, adding that the flightdeparted from Colombo at 00:05 hrs on Friday with 207 passengers and 16 crew members. The aircraft landed safely back at Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) following the &#8220;operational incident during adverse weather conditions&#8221;.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/south-asia\/watch-srilankan-airlines-flight-with-over-200-onboard-hit-by-lightning-lands-back-safely-in-colombo\/articleshow\/131705966.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Screengrab from video on social media A SriLankan Airlines flight was forced to turn around on Friday after it encountered lightning while flying to Sydney from Colombo. According to reports from local news outlet Daily Mirror- Sri Lanka , passengers heard a loud bang shortly after the incident and briefly saw flames coming from one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}