Show experts minimize lightning dangers i 1 although the danger of being struck by 1191 lightning taing Is greater to the person flying in an airplane than to the per son bon standing away from trees on the ground it Is not a very serious risk la in tile the view of weather experts only about one bolt of lightning out of every one hundred reaches the ground so 80 the danger from lightning Is great er in the upper air most lightning flashes travel from one part to another of the same cloud in a path api proximately parallel to the earths surface the airplane may fly into the path of such a lightning flash dash la in which case it would be struck though not dot necessarily severely damaged |