{"id":805692,"date":"2026-08-07T12:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T12:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/805692\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T12:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T12:10:14","slug":"airplane-carrying-party-animals-players-struck-by-lightning-on-way-to-lehigh-valley-airport-lands-safely-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/805692\/","title":{"rendered":"Airplane carrying &#8216;Party Animals&#8217; players struck by lightning on way to Lehigh Valley airport, lands safely | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HANOVER TOWNSHIP, Pa. \u2014 An airplane on its way to Lehigh Valley International Airport was struck by lightning, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>Airport officials say the flight, coming from Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina, landed safely despite being struck.<\/p>\n<p>Garett Delano, a pitcher for the Party Animals, posted on Facebook that he was on the plane when lightning hit.<\/p>\n<p>The Party Animals are set to play two games of Banana Ball at Coca-Cola Park on Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Luckily everything is fine,&#8221; Delano said in the post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HANOVER TOWNSHIP, Pa. \u2014 An airplane on its way to Lehigh Valley International Airport was struck by lightning,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[61345,133217,97,99],"class_list":["post-805692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown-area","tag-health","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}