http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/opensecrets/2009/06/airplanes_and_lightning_strike.html en-gb 30 Sat 26 Dec 2009 01:48:18 GMT+1 A feed of user comments from the page found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/opensecrets/2009/06/airplanes_and_lightning_strike.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/opensecrets/2009/06/airplanes_and_lightning_strike.html?page=13#comment2 Airplane - has the BBC been taken over by the Americans? Aeroplane. Wed 17 Jun 2009 16:08:08 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/opensecrets/2009/06/airplanes_and_lightning_strike.html?page=6#comment1 Tom -Your assumption is correct. Perhaps I should have made clearer that all the 162 flights involved continued safely without crashing. Wed 03 Jun 2009 07:51:55 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/opensecrets/2009/06/airplanes_and_lightning_strike.html?page=0#comment0 Am I right in assuming that none of these 162 lightning strikes damaging aircraft resulted in emergencies, and certainly not in crashes ? That would certainly be reassuring for nervous passengers !Air crashes involving major carriers are now very rare, so the latest Air France disaster comes as a shock. But apparently there are something like 50,000 commercial flights a day, so flying is by far the safest form of transport. And it is getting safer, too. Tue 02 Jun 2009 17:31:59 GMT+1