Plane urgently diverts after being struck by lightning near Heathrow Airport
Passengers were driven from Gatwick to Heathrow after the diversion (Picture: MI News/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock)
A British Airways flight has been forced to divert after being struck by lighting on its way to Heathrow Airport.
BA Flight 919 from Stuttgart, Germany, was scheduled to arrive at Heathrow at 1.40pm today.
Just as it came in for landing, lightning appears to have struck the tip of it wing, forcing it to divert to Gatwick, some 25 miles away.
Passenger Jeco, who shared an image of the lightning bolt on X...
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