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To: CedarDave; HiTech RedNeck

Glad the lightning didn’t damage the plane you were on. It must have freaked everyone out when it happened, especially the pilots.

I’ve seen videos of lightning striking planes and my hair stood up.

Like I said earlier, they do all they can to build planes to survive lightning strikes intact but nothing’s perfect. Everything has an Achilles Heel.


265 posted on 12/27/2014 10:47:45 PM PST by radu (May God watch over our troops and keep them safe)
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To: radu
Glad the lightning didn’t damage the plane you were on. It must have freaked everyone out when it happened, especially the pilots.

I'm more glad than you! On arrival I asked one of the pilots about it and he said it was a first for him, but it was not the first time for the other.

268 posted on 12/27/2014 10:53:46 PM PST by CedarDave
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To: radu

The standard advice for being caught in a lightning storm in an automobile is to stay in the automobile. If lightning strikes, normally the metal skin and body will carry the current harmlessly past anything in the car. But there is a cliche that lightning goes where it wants, and it has been known to punch through an otherwise insulating surface.


278 posted on 12/27/2014 11:26:08 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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