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 ...

Lightning, despite being a common and readily-detected phenomenon, is nevertheless difficult to study. One reason is the difficulty of predicting when and where lightning will strike; tall structures ...

Every year, an estimated 6,000 to 24,000 people are killed by lightning around the world, and many more are injured. There is a wide range in these numbers because these estimates are based on limited ...