99.99...% of the time, lightning strikes are a complete non-event. Your average airliner is struck once per year, and specifically designed to handle it without any major airframe, avionics, etc. failures. It happened to me in the Beech. No big deal, and the only evidence were small scorch marks on a few of the prop blades, and a very, very tiny scorch mark and pin sized hole near the rear of the aircraft, near the tail cone, aft of the pressure vessel. Air transportation would be THE MOST dangerous form of travel if that is what your average lightning strike did to an aircraft (in the picture).
Last edited by 1900luxuryliner; 04-08-2009 at 02:39 PM.