A passenger waiting to board his flight at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Airport captured a video of a bolt of lightening hitting a Delta Airlines aircraft as it waited during a ‘ground hold’ at the airport as a result of a torrential downpour on 18 August.

Unaffected by the lightening strike the aircraft later took off and reached its destination of Las Vegas without incident. A Delta spokesman said in a statement that: “Fuselage structure and industrial-grade insulation acts as a super-conductive lightning rod that rechannels lightning around and away from customers and crew and out into the ground via the landing gear.”