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Protected if lightning does hit the plane it will be conducted away from the sentencive instruments, and they have these static discharge wicks. if you look outside the plane, they have rods that stick off the wing and those are meant to help release static electricity that's built up when these planes fly into thunderstorms. they create their own static electric charge and attract thunder and lightning, so they try to do it that way. >> yeah, yeah. >> so it's not typically going to bring a plane down. i'm sure the investigation will show whether or not that had something to do with it. typica...
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