Originally Posted by
hydrostream
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.
Had a similiar experience in a CRJ flying around weather in the LAS area.
Too busy dealing with the :
1.) Blinded copilot who foolishly leaned forward at night and looked out the window when I pointed out the "lance" lighting forming on the nose 30 seconds after severe St. Elmo's Fire (Sorry about that dude. "Learned about flying from that" and all)
2.) Failed autopilot(s).
3.) The complete failure of the weather radar at just about the time we really, REALLY needed it.
Glad I'm not the only one, because I thought they were crazy.
Postflight maintenance showed me the nose cone: looked like a baseball had impacted the inside of it on the interior only.