8/11/2005: Lightning strikes airliner (with animation link)

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Originally Posted by busterb

No ground= no foul

Well I think I heard that it had some effect - something about a passenger finding his dentures acquired a light blue tincture and that he temporarily lost hearing in both his ears following the strike. So maybe I mistook that for being a cell phone wealded to the side of his face instead of the blue tooth ear peace it really was (sorry, old fogey humour, luckily only occurs infrequently).