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What happens when a plane is struck by lightning?
Every commercial aircraft is struck by lightning an average of about once per year. Rhys Phillips, a research engineer in lightning and electrostatics, explains what happens to a plane and how it's designed to cope with such occurrences.
(Image: Passenger airplane travelling through sky against stormy bolt cloudscape, Credit: iStock / Getty Images Plus.)
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