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By Jeremiah Hassel A terrifying video has captured the moment a bolt of lightning strikes an Air Canada Boeing 777 aircraft seconds after it took off. The flight, from the Vancouver International Airport to London’s Heathrow on Sunday, was due to take off at 7.25pm local time and take 10 hours. But as the plane moved down the runway, took off and reached a few hundred feet in the air, a giant flash illuminated the airport. The plane had been struck by lightning seconds into its flight, and, based on video footage shot by a local student pilot, by a massive bolt, too. Ethan West was filming the…

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