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					Originally Posted by  mike_bike_kite
					 
				 
				Also aren't planes built to withstand lightening strikes and surely these are a smidgen more powerful than a few phones.  
			
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 Look up "Faraday cage". The charge from a lightening strike flows over the outside skin of the aircraft and doesn't penetrate it.