No one was injured in the collision and the passengers onboard the Spirit flight deplaned at the gate.

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We dropped the front boarding door and deplaned and started to walk around the aircraft to see where the lightning had struck the plane.

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Just one day earlier, an electrical fire broke out on an empty Boeing 787 Dreamliner jet at Boston Logan International Airport, after it had deplaned passengers arriving on a non-stop flight from Tokyo.

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Soldiers slowly deplaned and then stood in formation.

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