Originally Posted by
212man
I know, but I think the gamble of doing an ARA and diverting to Bergen is not quite the same as getting struck by lightning and ditching!
There exists a photograph of a Super Puma at Bergen that suffered a lightning strike to a main rotor blade. It blew a hole aft of the spar large enough for the chief engineer to put his head through it.
Wish I had kept a copy. This would have been circa 1995.