Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100817:13:58:00
What effect did that have, do you think? >> i think what you see from -- the lightning strikes are not necessarily the reason that this accident happened. what you're going to really focus on is going to be the convective activity all around the airport. what happens is with the terrain over here, you're going to look for downbursts from the thunderstorm the, micro burst activity, lightning flashes that may have blinded the pilot. >> reporter: something that might have happened just seconds before the impact. weiss tells us that planes often get hit by lightning but not brought down by it. tho...
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