The percentage of electronics at the end of their lives which were recycled.
The EPA found that the percentage remained consistent from 1999-2005. Even as recycling rates went up, the amount of electronics reaching end of life outpaced the increase, leaving the figure static. (source: EPA, July 2008)
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i think the person was commenting on your ambivelence toward the English style manual, rather than the facts of the case, and i say that jokingly.. :)
according to the style manual, your sentence part:
high-altitude transcontinental flight damaged her tail section
suggests that the high-altitude flight caused the damage, and the storm is an ancillary fact, like that fact that people on board were wearing shoes.
from the wiki, i'd say it's about 75%/25% that the storm was the cause, and the high altitude was an effect of the storm, so the sentence would need to be rewritten to place blame on the storm.
whatever. i learned something and would like to see that vid on the discovery channel, so i say the sentence is fine as written. this tiny box i'm typing in, and the fact that my password is in some alien language that i will never remember, are both things that need more work than the article.