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Experts: Jetliner crashes due to storms rare
Jetliners such as Air France's Airbus 330, which was lost over the Atlantic after penetrating a violent tropical thunderstorm, are designed to withstand a storm's lightning and turbulence, aviation experts said Monday.
And because pilots are trained to fly over or around thunderstorms, such crashes are very rare, they said.
Air France Flight 447 early Monday was headed from Rio de...
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