Back in the days of iron men and wooden jets I was flying a new (well it was new then) Jet Commander and took a lighting hit. I was at FL 330 over the Central U.S. during early spring. I was IMC and the radar (the old green cathode-ray tube style) showed two cells about twenty miles on either side of the airplane. There was a very bright flash and a very hard jolt of turbulence. The number 1 engine flamed out, all the A.C. powered flight instruments on the left (my) side failed. When the switch to power the left side from the right side was pushed all the A.C. instruments on the right side failed. Guess what, this was before the days of standby battery flight instruments. All I could do was bring the number 2 engine to idle, raise the spoilers, put the gear down and hang on for dear life. After what seemed like two or three hours we fell out of the storm around 10,000 ft not quite inverted, rolled level and limpted into KMEM and landed. Tried to restart the #1 engeine many times with no sucess, found out why after landing. The lighting hit the #1 engine in the intake, fried both the DC gen/starter, the AC gen, burned all the wiring from the engine to the # 1 converter regulator leaving an open circuit that shorted out the #2 converter reglator when we tried to transfer power. The airplane had to be ferried back to the factory and be rewired. Thrity years and 19,000hrs later that is still my only real lighting hit. I did see a Sabreliner (T-39) land with no radar dome due to a lighting hit. Rember you can still be at the wrong place at the wrong time when it comes to T-storms.
Took a lot of scotch to get a buzz that night.