Thank you!! Not disputing that it was not reported but may still have happened...

MAN-DUB flights generally dont reach much higher than 16000ft or so anyway as normal flight time generally only hits the 35 minute mark.So its not beyond the bounds of probability that beginning of descent coinciding with the LS,hence description of rapid descent or whatever it was. It all seems more than a little Daily Mail to me.

different post mentioned the "plummet" not relevant to the MAN -DUB flight

Ooops, my mistake...
 

Temporary Power loss a possibility.The Loss in Altitude could be deliberately by the crew,suspecting an unwanted problem.
regds
MEL

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)

Did this ever happen to you?
 

Yep, climbing out of Nice about 6 years ago. No after effects at all!:eek::eek:

I would have thought it wouldn't cause too many problems- lightning travels through path of least resistance, so probably just through the skin of the aircraft and not much else- just what I imagine would happen.

Yes; many, many times with no effect apart from a small hole or two on a few occasions.

I doubt that many airline pilots will get through a career without being struck once or twice!

Like a lot of pilots I've had a few and from the inside it is very, very bright! This is amazing footage of what it looks like from the outside. I'll try and be more afraid next time it happens :eek:

I did once see a glider get hit by lightning when it was still attached to the winch cable. Well, if you go and stick a 1000 foot lightning conductor near a big, black cloud then what do you expect. The pilot was mildly shaken.

Unlike the other glider who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and got blown to bits:
http://www.aaib.gov.uk/cms_resources...pdf_500699.pdf

I've had 3 over the years and it has not affected me at all Wubble bing bang harumph

Lighting and the Faraday box
 

I trust all you aircrew watched the TV programme tonight on lightning. They were explaining how an aircraft acts like a Faraday box and distributes the current around the airframe and then releases it causing little damage. BUT their view on what will happen with composites - like the 787 - was quite alarming. Obviously they are trying to resolve this issue; in fact with with copper mesh but on the trial skin it burnt badly. Any more updates on this problem?