Originally Posted by
Frequent_Flyer
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The pilot immediately revved up the engines and "jerked" the plane up to 1400 meters. It felt like it was flying irradically for a while with lots of powerful moves which made me feel all the Gforces.
Pilot then announced that it was a lightning strike and that Heathrow was too busy to let us land. We would try again in 5 minutes.
This makes Heathrow ATC sound like couldn't-care-less morons.
In actual fact, looking at the trace of the track, the whole team would have been working their butts off the moment the final approach was disturbed by the strike, and co-ordinated the aircraft back round as first priority in the minimum possible time, while handling everyone else on the approach who are now making way for this aircraft.