Lightning strike on CRJ
 

i found this on a news aggregator website.

good job to the crew that got her down safely.

someone can correct me if I am wrong, since I am out of the loop, but I believe those pictures are from the fire they had at the gate on 830AS in TLH last month.

http://www.airlinepilotforums.com/re...-fire-tlh.html

Yea..lightning strikes do not look like that..that's most definitely a fire.

That was not a lightning strike. Rumor has it Mx left a wrench in the circuit breaker panel behind the captain. It shorted a bus bar and started a fire. The fire burned through an O2 line...instant blowtorch! Lucky it was on the ground.

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).

Im in class on the 900 right now and we were shown slides on that particular aircraft and it is an o2 line that burst and melted the l/h fwd fuse behind the garment closet. the o2 bott is located on the on the l/h side of fwd entry door. They were not flying. it was before they were off the ground.

I've been in the Jumpseat of an MD-80 during a lightning strike.

It was a non-event. Just loud and a surprising. The captain used some very technical aviation terms that along the lines of "what the * was that?".

Maintenance checked the plane over on landing and found nothing.

They didn't even have pax on board yet. So other than being expensive, no big deal.

No, the pic linked in post #1 doesn't look anything like the ASA fire in TLH.

Here is the TLH pic - http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...8093749000.jpg

Your picture looks like it was taken after they cut some metal away for repair or investigation. Same airplane.

A lightning strike could not do that kind of damage to a metal airplane...if it did, it would have killed the CA and probably killed or disabled the FO too. That hole would be the equivalent a 100mm+ artillery round hitting an armored vehicle. The only picture available would that of a smoking hole in a cornfield.

The holes above the window line are the same..that's the same airplane.

I rule in favor of the defendants, this is indeed a fire not a lightning strike.

I award you no points, and may god have mercy on your soul.

Now that I look closer, I agree with you it looks like they took some metal or a panel off. The lightning strike pictures have "830" on the airplane, I'll go to our hanger and see if has the same number.

slight correction.... true the O2 bottle on the 900 is where you stated, but the 200 shown in the fire pictures has the bottle located in the avionics compartment.

I checked the plane a few minutes ago, it is N830AS with 830 on the front. It is the same airplane.

Or a 12.7mm shell striking an aluminum-skinned aircraft.

DEFINATLY NOT LIGHTNING. Lightning makes small pin sized holes in the aircraft not that crater.. Definatly a fire.

The pipe for the jumpseater's mask goes behind that panel, I suspect that's where the blowtorch came from.

50's don't contain HE.

I was thinking of the Russian stuff - my bad.

Exit wound maybe?

Call it fate, luck or a blessing but it is a miracle that it did not happen in the air!

Lightning stike eh? Nice spin...

There's a story on this over at FlightPod Television (Episode 003)

It was a fire at the gate.

Vykus

Your joking, you cant tell that is the same plane, look at the top portion of the hole on your pic and compare it to the other, same plane same damage....there is no way a lightning strike would create that damage pattern. Have you ever suffered a LS in flight?, I have and ill tell you I have the skid marks to prove it...:D, one very Loud bang, resulting in one captain using some very colorful language( ok the FO said some colorful things too ;)), and a tiny pin prick scortch mark on the tip of the wing...thats it

This case - overhead panel fire.

As for lightning, stay away (at least 10...20 nm better) from those bumpy clouds, lest they reach out and touch you...