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Where Lightning Goes When It Hits an Airliner

Standalone authored Short anchored to parent 1855 (lightning and modern jets). Loop: where the current goes when lightning hits an airliner. Commercial jets are struck roughly once a year; current attaches at one extremity, travels the conductive skin and exits at another. Pan Am 214 (1963), a lightning-ignited fuel-vapor explosion, drove fuel-system lightning protection; composite jets embed meta

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Where Lightning Goes When It Hits an Airliner

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