Aircraft struck by lightning are usually safe because:

  1. they are high in the sky
  2. the metal fuselage acts as a Faraday cage
  3. fuel absorbs the charge
  4. lightning can't reach them
Answer

B) the metal fuselage acts as a Faraday cage

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