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Joshua_Bagel: 3 months ago via iPhone

What happens to an airplane when it's struck by lightning?

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dmc4343: 3 months ago

Don't worry, there are no extra charges.

(Sorry, had to say it.)

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Soulfly21: 3 months ago

Good one :)

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Joshua_Bagel: 3 months ago via iPhone

Lol

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UnholyRights: 3 months ago

Clever.

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DolceMonserrat7: 3 months ago

Haha

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dmc4343: 3 months ago

Was just winging it - thanks

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Joshua_Bagel: 3 months ago via iPhone

Don't worry, it was a good one

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souixbeehoney: 3 months ago via iPhone

That was plane to see!

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SuperGeek64: 3 months ago

It crashes?

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Joshua_Bagel: 3 months ago via iPhone

So just to be clear, it stops being an airplane?

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SuperGeek64: 3 months ago

Yes.

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Joshua_Bagel: 3 months ago via iPhone

Okay, what if I throw a lightning bolt at one? Same result?

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DontBlameMe: 3 months ago | Last edited at 9:16PM on 2/5/2013

Death (to the airplane)

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Joshua_Bagel: 3 months ago via iPhone

tic_tac? Is that you?

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DontBlameMe: 3 months ago

Yesh. v_v

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Joshua_Bagel: 3 months ago via iPhone

Your confusing me, lol

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DontBlameMe: 3 months ago

Sorry. :)

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Joshua_Bagel: 3 months ago via iPhone

Lol, I guess I'm doing sort of the same thing

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DontBlameMe: 3 months ago

You are?! I was like wtf this morning! xD

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Joshua_Bagel: 3 months ago via iPhone

Went back to my original stuff, still a different account though

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DontBlameMe: 3 months ago

I figured.

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DolceMonserrat7: 3 months ago

Well I don't think there will be a very good outcome......

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TheGreatBambino: 3 months ago

Oh...It is possible for the plane to still make it, but very unlikely.

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Joshua_Bagel: 3 months ago via iPhone

So, in a storm, do you think it releases conductors like a jet fighter would with chaff?

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Soulfly21: 3 months ago

The exterior of the plane refracts the lightning and channels it around the aircraft. No damage is done to the craft. Commercial airlines are struck by lightning many times.

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UnholyRights: 3 months ago

A magical mushroom comes out of it. Very good question..

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crowtrobot: 3 months ago via Android

nothing,the plane is grounded,the lightning travels around the outside of the body except on very rare conditions

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Joshua_Bagel: 3 months ago via iPhone

Very cool

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AndrewGray1398: 3 months ago

Planes are designed to handle this. There is a video on Youtube of an A380 being struck and you can see the plane keep right on going after it happens.

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Joshua_Bagel: 3 months ago via iPhone

Do you think if Zeus started bolting it, it would still be okay?

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AndrewGray1398: 3 months ago

Yes they are designed to handle the most severe strikes. The strike in that video is extremely severe. It's a great advertisement for Airbus.

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Joshua_Bagel: 3 months ago via iPhone

Okay, that's pretty cool I didn't know that

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RedRose: 3 months ago

I wonder if the people inside could feel it...

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AndrewGray1398: 3 months ago

You should look up that video it's really neat. Put in the search A380 getting struck by lightening.

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AndrewGray1398: 3 months ago

People don't feel it at all. The plane acts as a giant lighting rod.

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JewelnMiasMom: 3 months ago via iPhone

Usually only scorch marks where the lightening actually hit the airplane. Typically on a wingtip. Rarely are any electronic issues caused by lightening strikes. Routinely the airplane will land at the nearest airport after a lightening strike. This a precaution only. Airliners are usually struck about once a year.

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wickedpissah: 3 months ago

Nothing. Planes are hit by lightning all the time. If you've ever flown anywhere, you're plane has probably been hit by lightning.

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Angel_Eyes_1: 3 months ago | Last edited at 6:12AM on 2/6/2013

Well as long as the piolet is a good driver I believe that everyone will be okay. If it has happened before and no injuries.

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Joshua_Bagel: 3 months ago via iPhone

I like your plane better that Cookies

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Angel_Eyes_1: 3 months ago

Ha , ha I don't know what to say to that lol.

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Joshua_Bagel: 3 months ago via iPhone

Than*
Lol... People wonder why other people like to jump out of "perfectly good aircraft", THAT'S WHY!

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Angel_Eyes_1: 3 months ago

Ha , ha !

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BlackRose54: 3 months ago

Used to whenever airplanes would face this ordeal of being struck by lighting the fuel tanks would explode and cause problems then eventually the plane most usually always went down, but now airplanes are supposed to be more improved than what they were before and are said now that they can withhold a lighting strike so possibly nothing would happen unless it was just unlucky for that plane to face trouble being struck then guess what it's going down....

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Joshua_Bagel: 3 months ago via iPhone

I've never flown before, I'm starting to want to do it just for the sake of being in the air. Sometimes I wish I was a bird

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BlackRose54: 3 months ago

Same here, but you wishing you were a bird would just probably fall straight down smacking the ground hard and having feathers fly everywhere from getting shot down possibly by a little kid with a BB gun too Lmfao!!! xD

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Joshua_Bagel: 3 months ago via iPhone

Good point... Maybe live somewhere exotic lol

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BlackRose54: 3 months ago

Where?... Hawaii maybe perhaps Lol :)

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Joshua_Bagel: 3 months ago via iPhone

Somewhere with little to no human population lol, somewhere I can dive bomb for fish!

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BlackRose54: 3 months ago

What if a shark got you then what?

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Joshua_Bagel: 3 months ago via iPhone

That's the circle of life... I don't like to be at the top of the food chain anyway

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