Re: Aircraft and lightning

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Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>

"Some investigators speculate the cause of the crash
was the lightning since heavy thunderstorm was going
on in the area."

	I've read that the speculation is that the accident was caused by the
effects of a microburst associated with the storm, not a lightning
strike itself; seems far more likely.  Same as the awful Dallas L1011
microburst accident in a rainstorm a few years back that really drew
serious attention to microbursts, their prediction, on-board sensing,
and mitigation.

Ed