Air France 744 May Be Damaged For Lightning Strike

The passenger Plane Air France, which is missing. Through the investigation investigators are thinking that Air France 744 may be damaged for lightning strike.

The Company Said:
The wide-body Airbus A330-200 carrying 228 people disappeared after some four hours in flight on its way from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. The plane sent an automatic message to Air France “signaling electrical circuit malfunction,’’

Speculation has swirled that the plane was flying into strong thunderstorms and was hit by lightning. Safety experts note, however, that planes are built to withstand lightning strikes, and crashes resulting from lightning are extremely rare, especially when planes are at cruising altitude and can fly above or around storms.

“I cannot recall in recent history any examples of aircraft being brought down by lightning,” Bill Voss, president and CEO of Flight Safety Foundation, Alexandria, Va., told The Associated Press.

Planes have multiple backup electrical systems, including batteries and small turbines that deploy from the belly of the jet and generate power as they turn in the wind. Since apparently no distress call was received from pilots, officials have suggested something catastrophic happened to the jet. Electrical fires have brought down planes. In most crashes, a chain of events and mistakes typically leads up to the crash, with several key contributing factors.

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