SAS A340 pierced by lightning

[Short Approach?]

I hear rumors about a SAS A340 being pierced by lightning departing from N.Y.

Supposedly caused a hole in the frame, that was only detected after landing in CPH.

I can understand why one would prefer a few detours, to a flight through a CB after such an incident.

[dusk2dawn]

With a gazillon departures a day all over the world it is bound to happen a handfull of times - daily.

Hardly worth mentioning on the worlds foremost bulletin board.

[md80forum]

Crossing the Atlantic with a hole in the frame - "hardly worth to mention" ?! Excuse me ?!

[HotDog]

md80forum, you have obviously never experienced a lightning strike in flight. They usually cause pitmarks at entry points and exit points in the fuselage, I guess you could refer to them as holes. More damage is sometimes done to radomes with a collapse of the honeycomb structure. A lighting strike in flight is, in most cases not a very big deal. I have experienced several of them during my flying career in the tropics.

[Short Approach?]

Anyway.

Having seen the acft now, I can see how a fist-size hole is not worth mentioning :-)

Struck elsewhere in the frame, it would have caused a bit of a problemo.

[Techman]

Ahh, but HotDog, you and I are used to real aircraft and not these origami contraptions they build these days.
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