Pilot takes incredible pictures from inside his cockpit

‘I’ve never seen lightning like this one’ (Picture: Santiago Borja Lopez/Cover Images)

A pilot has released a set of incredible pictures that he has taken from his Boeing 767.
Santiago Borja Lopez captured night skies and lightning storms while working for a South American airline.
Among them is the picture above of a lightning bolt.
He said: ‘I’ve never seen lightning like this one. What sets the path of lightning? Taken over Ecuadorean Amazonia on a hot evening enroute to Europe.’
Based in Quito, Ecuador, his work for a major South American airline often involves flying over regions that experience amazing natural phenomenon.

‘An ominous storm over Panama City’ (Picture: Santiago Borja Lopez/Cover Images)

This picture won 3rd place in the 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year Award. Santiago says: ‘A colossal Cumulonimbus flashes over the Pacific Ocean as we circle around it at 37000 feet en route to South America’ (Picture: Santiago Borja Lopez/Cover Images)

‘A magnificent storm developing over the Atlantic Ocean, a few miles south of Jamaica’ (Picture: Santiago Borja Lopez/Cover Images)

‘The Amazonia between Ecuador & Colombia is the perfect place to host very powerful storms’ (Picture: Santiago Borja Lopez/Cover Images)

A storm over Colombian Amazonia (Picture: Santiago Borja Lopez/Cover Images)

‘Mooning Around – At 2,900m in Quito, Ecuador, this is what I call a supermoon’ (Picture: Santiago Borja Lopez/Cover Images)

‘Flying over the Colombian Amazonia about to enter Ecuadorian airspace to descend over the Andes into Guayaquil’ (Picture: Santiago Borja Lopez/Cover Images)

‘The Amazonia between Ecuador & Colombia is the perfect place to host very powerful storms’ (Picture: Santiago Borja Lopez/Cover Images)

‘Looking like a nuclear explosion, this great Cumulonimbus is discharging its power over Colombian rainforest’ (Picture: Santiago Borja Lopez/Cover Images)

(Metro,UK)