They have yet to find the wreckage, and I guess today it is not doubt that the plane has gone down pretty rapid in the atlantic ocean. Second day after the tragic incident of flight 447 from Air France.
Due to the first lightning strike in the Airbus A330 the one that likely caused the electrical system onboard, they could likely have lost the weather radar they had to help them navigate around bad storm cells and perhaps one of the autopilot systems. It is difficult to sit here and trying to picture what has happened, but all the talk about this electrical failure mentioned after the lightning struck. It would seem like that the flight crew lost some aircraft systems – and have flown straight into a storm, not able to know exactly where they were due to the loss for example of the weather radar. If they then flew straight into a storm not knowing it, busy coping with the electrical failure they might have been hit by several lightnings and severe turbulence – the lightnings could potentially create a “pressure problem” after a while like what has been mentioned earlier the plane had warned about. One direct hit by lightning could cause som systems to malfunction(rarely) or minor hull damage (this is also rare), but I am not sure if aircrafts can withstand several direct hits from lightning.
Or they had lost critical automated flight systems and instruments as a result of the storm including radio and communications – leaving the pilot to fly not able to see where he is flying and no visual reference because of the storm and the fact that it is night. Explaining why they had not called in any mayday messgage.
Well, I think we could easily come up with many more thoughts on this – now I wait for the rescue searchers to find the location of the wreckage. Let`s look at Boeing 747 getting hit by lightning during take-off, shall we.
