Do planes have warning systems? Did it even happen before?
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i think someone once told me that there are actually no recorded cases of someone getting hit by a meteor so chances seem to be very low
I think very, very slim. Like dropping a penny from the top of a building and expecting it to hit a paper aeroplane being thrown at street level, both being done at random times in the day.
The chances are very slim. Planes would not have warning systems for this and if they did it would not matter since meteors and comets would most probably explode in Earth’s atmosphere and fragment. Nothing can dodge that
Surface area of earth is 510,000,000,000,000 square meters. Surface area of an average plane is roughly 100 square meters.About 10,000 planes in sky on average at any given time.
So the flying planes make up roughly 1/510,000,000 of surface of earth. So basically, when a meteorite strikes, in theory it has 1/510,000,000th chance of hitting plane.
On average, 6,100 meteorites reach earth surface per year, therefore the chances of a plane being hit by a meteorite is about once in 84,000 years.
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