Terrifying moment a PLANE flies through Sydney storm as lightning and thunder strike – as a passenger shares a video from aboard an aircraft
- Planes battled lightning, winds and rain during the Sydney storm last night
- Paul Davies and his son were aboard a turbulent aircraft landing in the city
- Mr Davies shared a video of his terrifying view of lightning from the aircraft
- Another video showed a plane battling winds of up to 100 km/h as it flew
- The Sydney region was also hit with 60,000 lightning strikes during the storm
Frightening footage of planes flying through last night’s storm in Sydney show air crafts battling thunder, lightning, gale force winds and heavy rain.
Insurance adviser Paul Davies and his young son flew into the city while winds of up to 100km/h battered the coast during the storm that began just before 11pm.
Mr Davies shared a Twitter video of his view aboard the turbulent plane approaching Sydney Airport in the middle of the storm.
Meanwhile, another video showed a plane flying as lightning lit up the night sky – as 60,000 lightning strikes hit the Sydney region overnight.
Insurance adviser Paul Davies and his young son flew into the city while winds of up to 100km/h battered the coast during the storm that began just before 11pm on Monday
Another video showed a plane flying as lightning lit up the night sky – as 60,000 lightning strikes hit the Sydney region overnight
‘The view is better up here, I’d rather be on the ground than up here,’ Mr Davies captioned his video.
‘It was not much fun and when the captain says ‘evening folks, that’s the biggest light show I’ve ever seen in my career’. WTF.’
Sport journalist Brendan Bradford recorded a plane flying over his house with rapid strikes of lightning in the background.
‘A plane flying through the lightning storm. The world’s hardest of hard passes for me,’ Mr Bradford captioned the post.
Mr Davies shared his view aboard the turbulent plane approaching Sydney Airport in the middle of the storm in a video posted to Twitter
Mr Davies said the plane’s captain gave passengers a fright with his assessment of the storm
Sport journalist Brendan Bradford recorded a plane flying over his house with rapid strikes of lightning in the background
Although no planes crashed during the storm, one man tragically lost his life after being hit by a flying gas bottle picked up by the wind.
The 37-year-old was walking in the historic district of The Rocks in central Sydney at midnight when a metal gas bottle became airborne in winds that reached 100kmh, and struck him in the head.
Horrified witnesses took him to a hotel and performed CPR before he was rushed to St Vincent’s Hospital but he could not be saved.
Some 80,000 Sydney residents woke up without power on Wednesday morning after the huge storm, which has been compared to a tornado, hit the city shortly before 11pm. It lasted about an hour before moving out to sea.
Residents were left stunned by the intensity of the electrical storm which lit up the night sky with frequent and bright flashes of lightning followed by deafening cracks of thunder.
‘Never seen a storm like this before,’ one Twitter user from the city’s west said. ‘Non-stop lightning and thunder for over an hour. Power has gone off.’
Commuters were affected as a huge clean-up operation began. The North Shore Line was delayed by a fallen tree near Pymble and the Northern Line was held up by a fallen tree in Thornleigh.
A 37-year-old was walking in the historic district of The Rocks in central Sydney at midnight when a metal gas bottle became airborne in winds that reached 100kmh, and struck him in the head