Ffion Morgan looked out of the window expecting Montenegrin sunshine.
She got a bolt of lightning through the cabin instead.
The Wales women’s national team were flying to a World Cup qualifier when lightning hit the plane mid-flight, and Morgan had her phone out for all of it.
READ MORE: My Porsche ploughed into two bikes and two cars at high speed – I told police a POTHOLE did it
The footage shows a blue light tearing down the aisle. Screams followed.
Flashes where the sun should have been
The 26-year-old West Ham forward had clocked the weather before anyone else.
“So I took a peek outside to try and find the sun, but instead what did I find, flashes,” she said.
The pilot tried to land in Montenegro and couldn’t.
The storm forced the plane into a holding loop, which turned out to be the storm itself.
“Problem is we were looping into the storm and yeah we got hit by lightning,” Morgan said.
The pilot abandoned the destination and put the plane down in Brindisi, on the heel of Italy, across the Adriatic from where the squad needed to be.
CreatorZine first reported the diversion.
A 3am airport and nowhere to sleep
Roughly 60 people ended up in the terminal at around 3am, tired, hungry and without a plan.
Morgan found a local hotel and split a room with three teammates.
Others didn’t get that lucky. Some staff slept in the airport so the players had beds.
The team were stuck on 3 June. They were still in Italy on 4 June, the day they were meant to be training at the stadium.
“The longest away day ever,” Morgan said.
They made the match anyway
Calmer skies finally let them board a 20-minute flight to Montenegro.
The qualifier went ahead on 5 June at the Stadion Pod Goricom, barely a day after the squad got out of an Italian airport.
It finished 1-1, Hannah Cain converting a penalty in the 40th minute.
Why It Matters
The most dramatic footage of the entire trip didn’t come from a broadcaster or an official camera crew.
It came from a forward holding up her phone in a shaking cabin.
That’s where sport lives now. Athletes document their own chaos, post it themselves, and the raw clip travels further than any polished highlight reel.
Players have become their own media operation.
A lightning strike that might once have been a line in a match report is now a video with a face, a voice and a punchline attached, told by the person who lived it.
Wales’ qualifying campaign rolls on, and Morgan has the rare distinction of a viral clip that has nothing to do with the score.
Whether the next away day clears customs without incident is anyone’s guess.
