A World Cup squad’s plane was grounded after the aircraft was terrifyingly struck by lightning.
The women’s Wales national football team had a heart-racing journey to their qualifying match abroad.
Screams rang out across the plane after a huge bolt of lightning struck the plane – sending a shock through the aisle.
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Ffion Morgan captured the scary moment the storm hit the aircraft – with a blue light shooting through the inside of the plane.
The pilot immediately grounded the plane, abandoning their original destination and landing in Brindisi, Italy, as reported by NeedToKnow.
The shocking journey took place days before their World Cup qualifier against Montenegro.
The 26-year-old and her team mates were left ‘tired and hungry’ in the airport – with no plan in place for making it to their match.
Morgan, who currently plays for West Ham, managed to book into a local hotel with three other players.
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Around ‘60 people’ were left stranded at the airport around 3am – with staff managing to sort hotels for the players.
According to the forward, they even slept at the airport to make sure the players had a bed for the night.
The team were stranded on 3 Jun and still stuck wandering in Italy on 4 Jun – whilst they were supposed to be training at the stadium.
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Fortunately, with the weather much calmer the team were able to board a 20 minute flight to Montenegro.
The match took place the following day (5 Jun) against the home side at the Stadion Pod Goricom.
The game finished 1-1 with Hannah Cain’s penalty opening the scoring in the 40th minute.
Ffion said: “The longest away day ever.
“I thought it looks a bit grey outside for Montenegro – a hot country.
“So I took a peek outside to try and find the sun, but instead what did I find, flashes.
“And they just got worse, the pilot said we couldn’t land so we had to loop round until we could.
“Problem is we were looping into the storm and yeah we got hit by lightning.
“So we landed.
“It clearly wasn’t very safe to land in Montenegro, so we ended up in Italy.”
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