Lightning often strikes tall buildings.However,many buildings have lightning rods to protect them from lightning.When lightning strikes,electricity goes safely down the melal rod to the ground.Benjamin Franklin,the American statemen, invented the lightning rod in 1760.That is why buildings like the Empire State Building in New York City are safe. Lightning may hit this buildings as many as twelve time in twenty minutes and as often as 500 times a year. Airplane are not as easy to protect as buildings,and accidents do happen.In 1963,a Boeing 707 jet was hit by lightning and crashed.Eighty-one people died