Lightning Damage to Aircraft, Part 2

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Our study of aircraft lightning strikes determined that engines were flamed out in a total of 5% of the incidents involving turbojets, and in 8% of those involving turboprops. Propellers or spinners were damaged in 28% of the turboprop incidents. An Embraer EMB145 suffered an engine failure near...

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