Where Lightning Goes When It Hits an Airliner
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When lightning hits an airliner, the current enters at one extremity and exits at another, traveling along the conductive skin. Commercial jets are struck about once a year, and this video explains how they survive, from the 1963 Pan Am 214 lesson to modern composite jets with embedded metal mesh.
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