On December 8, 1963, Pan Am Flight 214 was holding over Maryland, waiting for a storm to clear before landing in Philadelphia. At 8:42 p.m., lightning struck the Boeing 707’s left wing, igniting fuel ...
This Monday, a Boeing 737-700 operated by Alaska Airlines caught an unlucky break on a flight to Sitka, Alaska, when it was ...
What steps can be taken to mitigate lightning strikes on future aircraft designs? This is what a recent study published in IEEE Access hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated new ...