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An American Airlines Boeing 737-800, registration N923AN
(flight AA169) from San Francisco,CA to Los Angeles,CA (USA) when the crew stopped the climb and decided to divert to San Jose,CA (USA) due to problems with the cabin pressure. The aircraft landed safely in San Jose.
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A 737-800 of Thompson Airways was forced to make an emergency landing at Gatwick after being struck by lightning.
The Thomson Airways flight (TOM732), which was travelling from Manchester to Agadir in Morocco, was an hour into its journey went it was hit by a bolt of lightning on Thursday evening.
The plane took off from Manchester at 6.42pm and eventually landed at its final destination three hours late at 1.08am on Friday.
Lightning strikes on aircraft are very rare.