{"id":260991,"date":"2026-08-07T13:36:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T13:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/260991\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T13:36:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T13:36:33","slug":"plane-with-party-animals-baseball-team-players-lands-safely-at-lehigh-valley-international-airport-after-being-struck-by-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/260991\/","title":{"rendered":"Plane with Party Animals baseball team players lands safely at Lehigh Valley International Airport after being struck by lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"6abc Digital Staff Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/16248352_2024-wpvi-generic-6abc-logo-on-white-background-img-v3.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Friday, August 7, 2026 12:58PM<\/p>\n<p>A plane landing at Lehigh Valley International Airport was struck by lightning and landed safely.<\/p>\n<p>WPVI<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">LEHIGH COUNTY, Pa.  (WPVI) &#8212; A plane carrying players from the Party Animals baseball team was struck by lightning while traveling to Lehigh Valley International Airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The flight came from Charlotte Douglas International Airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The plane landed safely at LVIA, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Garett Delano posted on Facebook about being on the plane when it happened. He was also vlogging about the delayed trip on his YouTube page.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Delano says everything was fine while they were on the flight, as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The Party Animals are playing two games in the Lehigh Valley this weekend.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, August 7, 2026 12:58PM A plane landing at Lehigh Valley International Airport was struck by lightning and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[110629,153,155,154],"class_list":["post-260991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-110629","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}