Commercial jets absorb a lightning strike once or twice per year on average, according to MiGFlug’s analysis of aviation lightning data, and no US commercial jet has been lost to a lightning strike since Pan Am Flight 214 went down in 1963 after a bolt ignited fuel vapor in a wing tank. That single accident, more than any other event in aviation history, is the reason every certified engine, nacelle, and fuel system flying today is engineered to treat a direct strike as a routine, survivable event rather than an emergency.
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