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Old 20th Oct 2005, 10:17
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Earlier this year there were several strikes on a/c on the same day at LGW. 2 a/c in particular (different airlines) suffered extreme damage to the Radome and more minor damage to the elevators.

Tha radome damage was so severe that at first I thought the a/c had suffered a bird strike until I realised there was no blood. There was a 10 inch hole in the front of the radome where (I think) the lightning earthed itself via the RADAR scanner rather that the diverter strips which were fractionally further away. Remarkably the 2nd a/c suffered almost exactly the same sort of damage.
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