According to reports, on the 26th of local time, a South American Airlines plane was forced to land after a storm hit it. The footage revealed on social media platforms shows the nose of the plane partially falling off.

The plane was flying from Santiago, Chile to Asuncion, Paraguay on the 26th local time. The head of Paraguay's civil aviation authority said the plane's nose was damaged and cracks appeared on the windshield.

The Chilean civil aviation authority confirmed that the plane made an emergency landing due to extreme and unforeseen weather.

Some passengers exposed footage of the incident through social media platforms, and the video showed the plane lurching badly when it hit stormy weather, with hailstones pelting the fuselage intensively and some passengers screaming out of panic.

South American Airlines said in a statement that the plane made a successful landing at 11 p.m. on the 26th, with 48 passengers on board, and the accident did not cause any injuries to passengers or crew.

. What happens when a plane encounters a thunderstorm? Will it stop?

1. Before flying, pilots should carefully understand the weather conditions of the flight area, especially the area where thunderstorms may occur. Carefully study its nature, location, range, intensity, altitude, speed, and variation. Thunderstorm trends, etc. Also, consider bypass options and preventive measures.

2. Flight crews should avoid thunderstorm activity areas as much as possible. Methods are to delay takeoff, change course and altitude, wait in the air, fly around, change landing, return, etc.

3. Use airborne radar to monitor weather changes in flight. When cumulonimbus echoes are detected, pay attention to their intensity change.

4. When flying around a thunderstorm, the basic principle is to avoid visual entry into the thunderstorm cloud and try to fly on or outside the cloud. When flying back and forth, you should pass from the edge of the radar echo at 25km according to the intensity of the thunderstorm.

Care must be taken when passing through the gap between two cumulonimbus clouds to prevent them from passing between two strong echoes.

5. Try not to fly under thunderstorm clouds because lightning strikes are most frequent between the clouds and the ground, and aircraft are most vulnerable to lightning strikes.

Once flying under clouds, try to avoid isolated hills, large trees, tall towers, and the spires of tall buildings.

6. When flying in the clouds, the weather encountered is complex and variable. Not only should you judge the situation according to the radar on the aircraft, but also request the cooperation of ground radar and obey the command of ATC.

7. Try not to fly in areas with more than moderate intensity precipitation. The first reason is easy to be precipitation static lightning; second, precipitation has a certain attenuation effect on the radar echo, which must pay attention to.