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3. Modern aircraft are better hardened against lightning strikes, and pilots avoid thunderstorms.

Thu Dec 8, 2022, 11:02 AM

Dec 2022

Strikes still happen, but they need not cause catastrophic damage.

Even manned rockets have been struck by lightning and survived.

https://www.weather.gov/safety/lightning-planes

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