Studies show that about 90 percent of the lightning strikes to aircraft are thought to be initiated by the presence of the aircraft itself. [Credit: iStock ] Question: A friend of mine was flying a ...

DAVID LEVIN: You're listening to a NOVA podcast. I'm David Levin. In June 2009, Air France Flight 447 plunged into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil, taking all 228 lives aboard. The plane's ...

When Lightning Turned Deadly On December 8, 1963, Pan Am Flight 214 was holding over Maryland, waiting for a storm to cl ...

Lightning hitting airplanes is commonplace and, though lightning has downed several commercial aircraft, it rarely leads to catastrophe thanks to modern protection systems. Each commercial airplane is ...

While the possibility of an aircraft being struck by lightning is rare and does not present a threat to flight crews or pilots, aircraft manufacturers are looking to improve their current level of ...

Vol. 100, No. 8, ANGLE of APPROACH: ACTIVATE's Strategies for Airborne Cloud and Aerosol Study (August 2019), pp. 1443-1452 (10 pages) Did you know that aircraft can cause lightning? Researchers began ...

The moment a cloud-to-ground lightning bolt struck an aircraft at low altitude. Notice that the lightning bolt entered the aircraft near the forward part of the fuselage and exited near the tail.

A cockpit camera in an F-18 fighter jet caught the stunning moment a lightning bolt struck the aircraft canopy and startled the pilot, whose initial instinct was to duck. In the rare video, evidence ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — A machine as complex as the F-35 Lightning II fighter jet is made in parts... 227 of those parts are made in Salt Lake City. Albany Engineered Composites (AEC) operates a ...