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Given the stormy weather off the Brazilian coast, Air France said the plane may have been struck by lightning, but that alone wouldn't necessarily lead to catastrophe, Gourguechon says. "Lightning strikes happen every day and usually have no consequences. The airplane was built to survive that."
David Learmount, operations and safety editor at Flight International Magazine in London, agrees but says that in rare instances lightning can have serious consequences. "The primary effects of a lightning strike would not bring an airplane down - the airplane is designed to be able to absorb it and then to...
It was the first Ivy League game of the season, and the Harvard women’s soccer team was rolling with a six-game unbeaten streak, including a 1-1 tie against then-No. 12 Boston College. After having played a grueling nine games in 22 days, the Crimson...
Once the shock of her good fortune wears off, however, she says she'll try throwing the dice again. After all, sometimes lightning strikes twice.
The answer is roughly 1 in 1.56 trillion, and on May 23, Patricia Demauro, a New Jersey grandmother, beat those odds at Atlantic City's Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa. Demauro's 154-roll lucky streak, which lasted four hours and 18 minutes, broke the world records for the longest...