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Old 13th Jan 2008, 18:54
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Swedish Steve
 
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All you who think a lightning strike is a non-event, read on
A Deutshe BA Fokker 100 was hit by lightning at rotation out of ARN some moons ago.
First message was Nbr 1 eng low oil pressure. He shut the engine down as directed by the ECAM. As the engine wound down he got a message Nbr 2 engine low oil pressure. He kept it running, ignored the ECAM telling him to shut it down, and landed pronto.
On investigation Both oil pressure sensors had failed due to the lightning strike. We changed one (only could borrow one from Transwede) and MEL'd the other.
The Fokker rep at TAT said that this was a known problem with the Tay engine (but not known to any of us at ARN)
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