{"id":332076,"date":"2025-12-17T09:47:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T23:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/australianaviation.com.au\/?p=1425284"},"modified":"2025-12-17T09:47:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T23:47:15","slug":"a-deafening-bang-tore-through-the-cockpit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=332076","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A deafening bang tore through the cockpit\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"553\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHdpZHRoPSI2NDAiIGhlaWdodD0iNTUzIj48cmVjdCB3aWR0aD0iMTAwJSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxMDAlIj48YW5pbWF0ZSBhdHRyaWJ1dGVOYW1lPSJmaWxsIiB2YWx1ZXM9InJnYmEoMTUzLDE1MywxNTMsMC41KTtyZ2JhKDE1MywxNTMsMTUzLDAuMSk7cmdiYSgxNTMsMTUzLDE1MywwLjUpIiBkdXI9IjJzIiByZXBlYXRDb3VudD0iaW5kZWZpbml0ZSIgLz48L3JlY3Q+PC9zdmc+\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image wp-image-1425399 wp-post-1425284\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;\" data-public-id=\"Australian Aviation\/P022_CCA-SR_02_vt5vrm.jpg\" data-format=\"jpg\" data-transformations=\"f_auto\" data-version=\"1764723915\" data-responsive=\"1\" data-size=\"1522 1314\" data-delivery=\"upload\" onload=\";window.CLDBind?CLDBind(this):null;\" data-cloudinary=\"lazy\" \/>In this extract from her book, Michelle Huntington tells the harrowing tale of her close encounter with a mid-air lightning strike \u2013 and how her training brought her home safely. Lightning is loud when it hits your aircraft, but the real noise comes after, when the cockpit goes black, the radios die, and you realise<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this extract from her book, Michelle Huntington tells the harrowing tale of her close encounter with a mid-air lightning strike \u2013 and how her training brought her home safely. Lightning is loud when it hits your aircraft, but the real noise comes af&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19000,273,312,4773,477,19001],"tags":[472],"class_list":["post-332076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19000","category-australia","category-aviation","category-premium-article","category-premium-content","category-premium-exclusive","tag-australian"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=332076"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332767,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332076\/revisions\/332767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=332076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=332076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=332076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}