Lightning Strikes (merged)
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Lightning Strikes (merged)
Spoke with a passenger involved with significant lightning strike on FR557 from Manchester to Dublin on evening of 8th january. Apparantly there was short on board electrical failure and significant drop in altitude.. Any further info?
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Apparantly there was short on board electrical failure and significant drop in altitude..
Me thinks you've been misinformed...
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There was also a lightning strike from stansted to belfast on a ryanair flight one of my friends was on. there supposedly was a big bang then the engine failed and the pilot dropped to 20,000 feet and continued flying on one engine to belfast.
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Ops normal
I followed the 557 in trail, speed controlled by Dublin and Manch Radar: the aircraft was around 5 miles ahead of me all the way across the Irish Sea.
Not a peep from the crew; ops normal all the way.
Red herring there folks.
Not a peep from the crew; ops normal all the way.
Red herring there folks.
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Not a red herring
Guys definatley not a red herring. Guy in mortal fear of flying after the event. He is an experienced traveller so there was a significant event.. Power loss was in the cabin only probably only lights that failed. FO came on after about 5 mins and advised that there had been a lightning strike and that following a systems check all was OK they were continuing to Dublin. There was no engine failure just a change in engine note probably to compensate for the altitude drop. No media involved in this purely a report form a guy on board
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I am looking at DHR records right now and i am 100% percent certain that this aircraft flew FR557 on the january the 8th,it did not suffer any lightning strike,i have all the info at my disposal and you are talking absolute rubbish,total and utter rubbish.
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Gary.. I am only asking the question and reporting what I heard.. No need to get excited. For sure there was some incident on the aircraft maybe not significant enough in the crews eyes for the crew to record but significant enough for the passanger to ask the question. maybe something more will come to light in the coming days 
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Lightning strikes ? Part of "the baggage" as always.
If you ain't had, you will .........
> and the pilot dropped to 20,000ft < ... and the other pilot ??
> significant drop in altitude.. < ......... air pocket !
.........didn't realise they knocked you out of the sky !!
As divinehover says, > It's a complete non-event. <
OK,guys, so I'm taking the p*ss but, like you, I get fed up of this overdramatic garbage.
BTW, what happened to the fine art of AVOIDING them ? Any ex-AEW pilots out there?
If you ain't had, you will .........
> and the pilot dropped to 20,000ft < ... and the other pilot ??
> significant drop in altitude.. < ......... air pocket !
.........didn't realise they knocked you out of the sky !!
As divinehover says, > It's a complete non-event. <
OK,guys, so I'm taking the p*ss but, like you, I get fed up of this overdramatic garbage.
BTW, what happened to the fine art of AVOIDING them ? Any ex-AEW pilots out there?
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The FO obviously made an error then in what he reported to the cabin.."Lightning strike" were his words not the passengers. I accept fully your position and information you have to hand.. Just looking to shed some further light on what may have happened
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gary
Saying it didn't happen 100 times is a bit counter productive. I am sure we will all believe you if you say instead "the crew didn't report it", as you appear to have acess to the tech records. I am ashamed to say that I have gone home after four sectors having forgotten a problem suffered on the first sector, easily done, and as has been previously stated a lightning strike ain't such a big deal. Maybe time to get off PPrune guy and get out there inthe p@ssing DUB rain and inspect that skin ? All this assumes of course that you are not the F/O but a ginger-beer or some other ops bod.
Saying it didn't happen 100 times is a bit counter productive. I am sure we will all believe you if you say instead "the crew didn't report it", as you appear to have acess to the tech records. I am ashamed to say that I have gone home after four sectors having forgotten a problem suffered on the first sector, easily done, and as has been previously stated a lightning strike ain't such a big deal. Maybe time to get off PPrune guy and get out there inthe p@ssing DUB rain and inspect that skin ? All this assumes of course that you are not the F/O but a ginger-beer or some other ops bod.