A NASA researcher who did groundbreaking work in lightning protections for aircraft says that he'd be "astounded" if lightning caused the Air France crash over the Atlantic Ocean, because of the extensive shielding and other protections built into modern aircraft, including the A-330 that disappeared between Rio de Janeiro and Paris on Monday.
"They might have taken a hit, but it would have been part of a larger and more traumatic thing that must have happened to them," says Bruce Fisher, now chief engineer for NASA's Langley research services directorate.
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