Philipsburg/Raizet:---The KLM flight 785 that was expected to land on St. Maarten at 2pm on Tuesday was hit by lightening while circling over St. Maarten to land at the Princess Juliana International Airport. The KLM flight was travelling from Holland to St. Maarten then its next stop would have been Curacao.
SMN News learnt that due to the inclement weather conditions the plane could not land. While in the air over St. Maarten, lightening struck the aircraft which forced the pilot to make an emergency landing in Raizet Guadeloupe. Preliminary reports state that no one was injured in the incident.
The aircraft is now on its way to Curacao after the technical staff checked to see if there were any possible damages. KLM flight 785 is expected to land in Curacao at 8pm then it will depart Curacao for Amsterdam at 9:30pm Tuesday night. Flight 785 has more than 8 hours delay. The 72 passengers destined for St. Maarten will be transported here by a chartered flight. The 108 passengers that were scheduled to leave St. Maarten on Tuesday afternoon will be flown out by a chartered flight on either DAE or Insel Air to Shiphol Airport in Amsterdam.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 08 June 2011 16:24 )
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07-06-2011 14:41 |Unregistered| Technology
I am happy to hear that the pa**engers are unharmed. Must have been a real frightening ordeal. Thanks to technology, it is not that easy (if possible) to bring down an airplane with a lightening strike!
Lightening and Aircrafts: http://www.usatoday.com/weather/resources/askjack/2003-05-06-lightning- airplanes_x.htm
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07-06-2011 17:24 |Unregistered| BB....
Hato airport is on Curacao. Shiphol is in Amsterdam. Check your last sentence.
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07-06-2011 18:29 |Unregistered| USA
Thank God no one was hurt, but that had to be a very frightning situation.
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07-06-2011 23:12 |Unregistered| sxmgra**root.
Thank you Jesus for your mercy and your grace. Lord continue to intercept the airways at all times with your protection. Hallelujah Amen.
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08-06-2011 04:34 |Unregistered| Blessings
Don't make it sound so bad.
Planes fly all the time in thunderstorms.
Nothing happens.
Remember KLM is a transit flight, and continued on to Curacao.
It is safe flying in bad weather.
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08-06-2011 04:52 |Unregistered| Lightening
@Blessings, We got to remember that most of St. Maarten people are backward and still living in the old time days. So they won't know any better. Put up a story like that and they think the world is ending.
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08-06-2011 07:15 |Unregistered| Buttercup
Thank God for real. I hoped those people counted their blessings. So should we. Thank you Lord once again>
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08-06-2011 07:33 |Unregistered| Captain Zen
Please leave god out of this, thanks to the builders of the aircraft nothing serious happened, god did not build that machine, technical engineers did, thank them !
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08-06-2011 10:58 |Unregistered| Nice
To captain zen one day u will call on God name but it will be to late so accept him now before it is to late an he is coming soon so get yourself ready for Christ coming
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08-06-2011 13:27 |Unregistered| Not God
Let us not take this issue and turn it in a religous thing.
I was working on the airport that day, and I was told by someone in the tower there was no visibility, and after an 8 hour flight, this is what airplanes do, they go to their alternate destination.
It has been happening all the time.
It is safe to fly in bad weather, man made the aricraft that way,
and YES, God is always with us.
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Thank you load that no was hurt. GOD is good