Clark wrote:

James Robinson wrote in
news:Xns9C20C3311F8C9wascana212com@ 94.75.244.46:

"Tim" wrote:

I have been wondering the same thing. I know our history with FBW
seems golden with respect to lightening strikes, but they were
flying near a large thunder storm.

According to two separate sources that track lightning, there was
none within something like 100 miles of their planned course, so it
isn't clear that they were anywhere near lightning. It's simply
speculation on the part of some pundits.


Do those sources track air-to-air or air-to-ground lightning? If they
are ground based then they only track air-to-ground and they will miss
all the air-to-air stuff. That might make just a wee bit of
difference...

They use satellites.