How pilots avoid thunderstorms—and what happens when they can’t

Thunderstorms are often also accompanied by heightened turbulence, which can be uncomfortable and frightening for passengers, ...
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MIT creates physics-based tool to predict lightning on future aircraft

What steps can be taken to mitigate lightning strikes on future aircraft designs? This is what a recent study published in IEEE Access hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated new ...

Maccabi Tel Aviv plane struck by lightning with players inside in terrifying ordeal

MACCABI TEL AVIV players suffered a terrifying ordeal after their plane was struck by LIGHTNING. Reports from Israel state ...
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VIDEO: Plane makes emergency landing after engine fire, 'sounded like lightning'

LOS ANGELES (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - A flight was forced to make an emergency landing after passengers heard an explosive sound and looked outside to see an engine was on fire. According to an account ...