Asia-Pacific / India · Science & Health

IndiGo flight struck by lightning, lands safely in Lucknow

Rank
Running: 8h
Updated: 2h ago
Momentum: Holding
Outlets: 6
Regions: 2
Countries: 3
Languages: 1

Times of India India · English 7 Oct, 17:14 UTC

The earliest of 6 English reports

The only language so far · English, 6 reports

Read at Times of India

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Times of India, 7 Oct, 17:14 UTC.
Second country: United Arab Emirates, with Gulf News.
Second region: Middle East, with Gulf News.
Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 7 Oct, 18:10 UTC.
Now: 6 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 3 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

83%17%

Asia-Pacific 5 outlets · 2 countries · 83%
Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 17%

First movers

Times of India 7 Oct, 17:14 UTC
The Indian Express +56m
Gulf News +1h 1m
ARY News +1h 54m
Hindustan Times +2h 8m

Latest arrivals

The Hindu 8 Oct, 00:10 UTC
Hindustan Times 7 Oct, 19:22 UTC
ARY News 7 Oct, 19:09 UTC
Gulf News 7 Oct, 18:16 UTC
The Indian Express 7 Oct, 18:10 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 6 outlets in 3 countries, across 2 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 6 outlets, 6 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Asia-Pacific 2: India, Pakistan. Middle East 1: United Arab Emirates. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: English.
Timeline: Earliest article Times of India, 7 Oct 2026, 17:14 UTC. First seen 7 Oct 2026, 18:10 UTC. Last seen 8 Oct 2026, 00:10 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region Asia-Pacific, India. Topic Science & health. Hard news Judged not hard news. Shown, because similar stories were all judged hard news. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: 1.59, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day: Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method

7 Oct 2026 211 4.10 4 3 4 3 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 7 Oct, 18:10 UTC · Updated 8 Oct, 00:10 UTC

Covered by 6 outlets

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Asia-Pacific 5 outlets

The Hindu India 8 Oct, 00:10 UTC
Nose of IndiGo plane found damaged after landing at Lucknow airport, lightning strike suspected
Hindustan Times India 7 Oct, 19:22 UTC
Patna-Lucknow IndiGo flight’s nose suffers damage, lightning strike among suspected causes
ARY News Pakistan 7 Oct, 19:09 UTC
IndiGo flight struck by lightning in India
The Indian Express India 7 Oct, 18:10 UTC
IndiGo plane damaged by lightning strike, makes safe landing in Lucknow
Times of India India 7 Oct, 17:14 UTC
IndiGo flight hit by lightning, damage found only after landing in Lucknow

Middle East 1 outlet

Gulf News United Arab Emirates 7 Oct, 18:16 UTC
IndiGo flight from Patna hit by lightning at 17,000 feet, lands safely in Lucknow