What Happens If A Plane Gets Struck By Lightning?

If you’re flying on a plane in a thunderstorm, you should be more worried about the wind than the lightning.

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Sources:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-happens-when-lightni/
http://www.livescience.com/32638-do-planes-get-struck-by-lightning.html
http://www.public.asu.edu/~gbadams/lightning/lightning.html
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/08/17/planes.lightning.strikes/
https://stab-iitb.org/newton-mirror/askasci/eng99/eng99304.htm

When Lightning Strikes


http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/design/q0234.shtml
http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2000/JackHsu.shtml
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/electric/lightning2.html
https://books.google.com/books/about/All_about_Lightning.html?id=QyV-kXVFDyUC
http://nypost.com/2015/04/09/lightning-bolt-leaves-hole-in-planes-nose/

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