Originally Posted by
afterburn81
A sustained head wind of 240 kts somewhere around FL380 over CRW. Another flight going down to VPS where the whole enroute segment was continuous St. Elmoe's Fire. Was quite the distracting light show for about 30 minutes straight. On short final we had a bunch of faults and when we fianlly landed several systems failed completely. Was rather interesting.
In what aircraft was this? I've been in St. Elmoe's Fire in the KC-10 for hours -- even have done hours of air-to-air refueling in it. I've never had or heard of anyone having damage from it. I'm not questioning you or anything like that, was just curious if the damage was directly attributed to the static electricity or to something else?