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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Ripsnort on January 09, 2003, 09:46:34 AM

Title: Shocking experience
Post by: Ripsnort on January 09, 2003, 09:46:34 AM

http://lightning.pwr.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp/lrg/temp/plane.html

Title: Shocking experience
Post by: Wlfgng on January 09, 2003, 09:50:03 AM

hate when that happens

Title: Shocking experience
Post by: Tarmac on January 09, 2003, 09:52:15 AM

Any text with that?  Looked through the parent directories, couldn't find any.

It'd be interesting to know how the plane fared after that.

Title: Shocking experience
Post by: Ripsnort on January 09, 2003, 09:54:09 AM

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Originally posted by Tarmac
Any text with that?  Looked through the parent directories, couldn't find any.

It'd be interesting to know how the plane fared after that.

This is what accompanied the email:

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The airplane was an ANA flight from a city in Japan to China.
It happened at take-off, the plane returned to the airport, with no
injuries, and no Boeing support was required, a person on the ground caught the pictures.

Title: Shocking experience
Post by: gofaster on January 09, 2003, 10:06:35 AM

Yowza.  I bet the passengers' hearts were thumping after that one.

Title: Shocking experience
Post by: Tarmac on January 09, 2003, 10:08:02 AM

Interesting.  I don't know that much about avionics hardware or lightning, but it's pretty amazing that something like that doesn't screw things up bad on a modern airliner.  

What kind of contingency plans/backups go into a modern plane's avionics?  Are they somehow shielded?