Are there any precautions taken with air travel during meteor showers?

Known meteor showers come during the year. It is unlikely one would fall to the Earth - thus through the entire atmosphere - but how many might? Is there any substantial risk to air travel because of this?

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The civil aircraft industry takes risk evaluation very seriously, and planes are not certified as safe to fly unless the authorities like the FAA are satisfied with the risk essments. The usual measure for something being "negligible risk" is that it would happen less than one time in one billion hours flying. If anything is that unlikely, the safety rules say you do not have to worry about it. To put that number in context, it means roughly that if you take a particular type of aircraft say a Boeing 777, you would only expect an event like that to happen once at most, in the entire history of B777s flying, from the first aircraft flight till the last plane finally stopped doing commercial p enger flights maybe 70 years later. And of course even if such a rare event did happen, it might not have any consequences like deaths or injuries. Since there have been no known incidents of meteors hitting planes during the first 100 years that planes have been flying, meteor strikes are completely "off the radar" so far as air safety is concerned. There are thousands of other issues literally, thousands that are more important to worry about
The risk is extremely small. The great majority of meteoroids are very small and burn up in the upper atmosphere, well above any aircraft. Only a couple larger ones could possibly make it through, but the chance that an aircraft would just so happen to be in its path would be extremely small
No, airplanes do not travel high enough and meteors do not fall deep enough into the atmosphere to worry
that is a very good question. call ur local weather station n try to talk to a meteorologist - not a flunky. ask him if there are precautions like ur talking about
Absolutely not. Meteors burn up long before they get to plane al udes. The chance of a meteorite showing up at the exact location of, well, anything smaller than a continent, is pretty remote
None, since no precautions are necessary. Can you provide an example of a plane being hit by interplanetary debris? The last time there was any risk of this was when they de - orbited Mir, but they did it out in the middle of nowhere, and issued a NOTAM telling planes to stay away

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