Lightening Strikes!

Ever wondered what kind of risk a plane goes thru when it crosses clouds that have thunder and lightening! Today evening we finally had rain here in Phoenix and I was in my balcony enjoying the breeze and watching the lightening strike in the distance, when I saw an aircraft emerge out of those clouds... My 1st thought was about the kind of view ppl sitting inside the plane would be getting! Ofcourse it must be scary not knowing when and where one of them might strike them or if one would strike them! But then I think it would be disrespect to human technology advancement if one assumes that that contraption in the sky has no mechanism what so ever to counter such kind of situation... a layman's guess would be some sort of grounding circuit which can actually handle the quantity of charge dissipated by a lightening! Any ideas...?

A couple of months back I was driving with frnds to The Grand Canyon and on our way we managed to actually capture lightening on our camera - ofcourse this was after umpteen attempts at shooting at the right place and at the right time, but my frnd finally managed it! :) Here it is -




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