ASA Lightning Strike. For real?

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06-01-2010, 04:17 PM

bgmann

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ASA Lightning Strike. For real?

Everything below was sent in a FWD'd email. Hey ASA pilots, is this real or photoshop...

<<THIS WOULD GET YOUR ATTENTION
<<That is the biggest lightning caused hole in an aircraft that I have ever seen. The pilot must have gotten religion immediately after he wet his <<pants. I'll bet his ears rang for quite a while afterwards.
<<
<<OK. So. You're the pilot of a plane. It's on auto-pilot and you're catching up on People magazine and having a cup of coffee. Suddenly the loudest sound you will ever hear goes off just behind your left ear. You're blinded <<by the flash and can't hear.
<<
<<You immediately consider retirement!!
<<A pilot friend sent these photos this morning of an Atlantic Southeast Airlines/Delta Connection aircraft, after it suffered a lightning strike.

06-01-2010, 04:24 PM

acl65pilot

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The pictures do not work, but if it is one with the burn holes behind the Captain, it was a bus short in GNV.

06-01-2010, 04:26 PM

SuperPilotJesse

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We can't see those pictures...

p.s. get ready to be transported to hangar talk.

06-01-2010, 04:27 PM

UnlimitedAkro

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Your pictures don't work when you click them. But, I bet they are the CRJ that had a fire. If it looks like a small hole by the captain's window, and burned-charred marks around the window, it was a fire- not a lightning strike.