<a style="color:#000" href="https://www.tugraz.at/institute/ittm">Institute of Thermal Turbomachinery and Machine Dynamics</a></br><a href="https://www.tugraz.at">Graz University of Technology</a> https://aeroenginesafety.tugraz.at/ 2026-04-30T02:15:42+00:00 https://aeroenginesafety.tugraz.at/ https://aeroenginesafety.tugraz.at/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:logo.png text/html 2020-06-25T20:43:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://aeroenginesafety.tugraz.at/doku.php?id=5:51:513:513&rev=1593117812&do=diff 5.1.3 Lightning On average, an aircraft is struck by lightning once every 104 hours of flight (). It is not yet completely understood, why lightning strikes aircraft (). The prevailing opinion is that lightning only strikes when the aircraft happens to be in or near a storm. The probability of a lightning strike at different altitudes is shown in <a id="lightning-distribution"></a><a id="typical-strike-positions"></a><a id="flame-out-danger"></a><a id="isolated-engine-controls"></a><a id="lig…