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(Michael Houghton) wrote:

Howdy!

In article ,
Jim Burns wrote:
Just listened to an interview with a passenger that claimed that she flew
very often and was supprised at how high they were over the approach end of
the runway. She sounded quite intelligent and said that they landed well
down the runway, further than "normal" and hit once very hard, bounced
several times, then skidded back and forth before running off the end. She
said the rain was torrential. She said she did not think that the plane had
been hit by lightning, but after the hard initial landing the lights in the
passenger cabin went out. There was an "expert" interviewed yesterday that
mentioned something about some of the cabin electrical system having a
g-load protection device that shuts some of the passenger cabin electrical
system down if there is a large g load, presumably to limit the possibility
of fire in the cabin.

One eyewitness offered a reasonably clueful account. He noted that the
airplane landed long (in so many words), and commented on how hard the
pilot seemed to be using reverse thrust. I think he also commented on
seeing a lightning strike, but it was unclear where that fit in the
chronology.


Those descriptions would be consistent with a 180 degree wind shift,
which often accompanies thunderstorms.