Three planes hit by lightning on approach to Langnes Airport in Tromsø – news Trøndelag

There have been many storms in several places in the country this weekend. In Tromsø, three planes were struck by lightning during the approach to Tromsø Airport on Sunday. Both Widerøe Bergen-Tromsø, Stokmarknes-Tromsø and Norwegian from Oslo-Tromsø were hit by the lightning strikes during approach. This is confirmed by director of communications at Widerøe, Silje Brandvoll, and director of communications at Norwegian, Grete Roald. – The aircraft is built to withstand a lightning strike, but it is also procedure after a lightning strike that a technician must go over the aircraft to ensure that there is no damage, says Brandvoll. A great many passengers are now waiting at the airport in Tromsø because of this. – Unpleasant Brandvoll says that you feel it as a passenger when lightning strikes an aircraft, but that they have good routines and that the aircraft withstand the weather well. – It is terribly unpleasant when lightning strikes an airplane, because there is a bang and a flash of light, but the airplanes are built to withstand it. That is why we always routinely offer a debrief to the public after a lightning strike, explains Brandvoll. There should not have been any technical failure when the lightning struck the aircraft, due to the lightning conductors. Several roads in Trøndelag are flooded as a result of heavy rain on Sunday. Flooded roads in Trøndelag – It is quite wet in large parts of our district, says Stian Gullvåg to news. He is a traffic operator at Vegtrafikksentralen Midt, where they have a lot to do today. On Sunday, several danger warnings were sent out due to heavy rainfall in Trøndelag. Throughout the county, there is a yellow danger warning for rainfall, floods, and landslides, mudslides and flash floods. Between Stjørdal and Steinkjer, these warnings are orange. This creates trouble on the roads in several places, especially in the north of the county. County road 6374 from Einbakkbrua up to Kvitlia in Indre Fosen is closed. – The water has gone over the road there and 150 meters of the road is under water, so the road is closed there and a detour is signposted, says Gullvåg. May be closed at short notice The water is also flooding the road in several sections, but as of now it is possible to pass all these places. The designated section is the E6 between Snåsa and Gartland. Here, the contractor works continuously to direct the water into the water into the ditch and out into the side terrain. – They carry out measures to clean the ditches and open up the plow edges, so that the water can flow out into the side terrain and out of the roadway, says Gullvåg. These stretches can be closed at short notice due to a lot of water in the road: Fylkesveg 720 Olsøykrysset and Foss Fylkesveg 720 between Malm and Verrabottn Fylkesveg 6924 and 6330 between Malm and Åfjord – It is not recommended that passenger cars drive on these stretches now, the Vegtrafikksentralen writes mid on Twitter. These sections have areas with a lot of water in the roadway, but are still open: E6 between Snåsa and Gartland E6 between Kvithammer and Stjørdalen E14 at Trobekkneset Fylkesveg 718 between Rissa and Hasselvika at Galgeneset



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