What happens when the plane struck by lightning?

           Many of you maybe curios about this, What happens when the plane struck by lightning? so i will give some explanation about this to you.

Plane Struck by Lighting

Before radar instrument was found, an airplane in flight through clouds often enter Cumulo Nimbus (the type of cloud that containing the bad weather and lightning). The plane, of course struck by lightning. If that happens, then in the plane will hear a small explosion like a knock on the cabin from the outside. At the night time it could look like a ball of fire on the wings of the plane, but there is no any effect to the passengers and crew. Later when the plane landed and the passengers get off, they can get an electric shock, although the electric current is quite small, but quite surprising.

Then an effort to protect passengers from electric shock as it was, was discovered a way or a tools to resist or throw lightning electricity back into space. The tool is quite simple, namely as a stick that in the end there appears metal like black hair, so it is often referred to as “aircraft whiskers ". Several pieces of equipment installed in the rear wing. With the installation of "electrical discharge", the flow of electricity from a lightning strike was thrown back into space, so there is no impact to the aircraft. The passengers and crew are protected from small electric shock caused by lightning strikes, anyway with the discovery weather radar equipment, the pilots have now been able to avoid Cumulo Nimbus clouds.

we hope this information is usefull for you :)

 

 

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