Lightning Strike - Singapore Airline
Was on a Singapore Airline flight (SQ238 MEL-SIN) yesterday that was struck by lighting as it was coming into land (about 10 minutes prior). Fairly loud noise, sounded like a muffled thud with what appeared to be a localised flash of light over the starboard wing. (Almost plasma like, rather than instantaneous flash like normal lightning)
I know that planes are well designed for this, but is something like this that regular and should it be reported? Would the pilots know there had been a lightning strike from any of their instruments or warning systems?