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Old 26th Jan 2010, 17:25
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Airliner loss due to lighting strike appears to be very rare :

Aviation Losses from Lightning Strikes - National Lightning Safety Institute


I was actually on a DC10 a couple of years ago that was struck by lightning - nothing unusual appeared to happen from a SLF point of view.
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