Editing Lightning (section)

==== To aircraft ====
Aircraft are highly susceptible to being struck due to their metallic fuselages, but lightning strikes are generally not dangerous to them.<ref>{{Cite web|title=What happens when lightning strikes an airplane?|url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-happens-when-lightni/|date=August 14, 2006|website=Scientific American}}</ref> Due to the conductive properties of [[aluminium alloy]], the fuselage acts as a [[Faraday cage]]. Present day aircraft are built to be safe from a lightning strike and passengers will generally not even know that it has happened. However, there have been suspicions that lightning strikes can ignite fuel vapor and cause explosion,{{citation needed|date=December 2024}} and nearby lightning can momentarily blind the pilot and cause permanent errors in [[magnetic compass]]es.<ref name="AWH">{{cite web |title=FAA-H-8083-28A, Aviation Weather Handbook |url=https://www.faa.gov/regulationspolicies/handbooksmanuals/aviation/faa-h-8083-28a-aviation-weather-handbook |publisher=[[Federal Aviation Administration]] |access-date=24 December 2024 |pages=22–7}}</ref>