Originally Posted by
1wife2airlines
Leaving STX at night in a 727 a long time ago, climbing out with rainshowers around. We get a ding ding ding from the back. FA says what was that. We didn't see or hear anything. FA says lightning hit one wingtip, came in the window and went up and down the aisle and out the other wingtip. Nobody hurt. No sign of problems in the cockpit so we press on but I still remember opening the door to a dark cabin with the largest, white eyeballs all staring up front. Found both wingtip taillights melted on postflight.
My mom was a flight attendant for Northwest Orient and has a similar story about ball lightning. She said it went from the front to the back down the aisle, and when they called the flight deck after it happened the pilots had no idea anything was out of the ordinary.