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Old 17th Oct 2005, 02:12
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gengis
 
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I had a lightning strike at about 13000 ft during a descent in IMC on a 777 which hit somewhere right of the radome. Up until that point, i used to harbour some doubts about how a new generation high tech, fully electronic airplane would really hold up in such a situation, notwithstanding all the flight testing that has been done. In this event, there was hardly a flicker on the flight instruments, both FMCs, AFDS panel, and most importantly, the fly-by-wire Flight Control Computers didn't even flinch! None of the avionics (radios, transponder, dme etc) were affected. I was a believer from that day.
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