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From Design News:
 In the 1980s, I worked as an avionics
supervisor at Hayes International Aircraft Corp. in Birmingham, Ala. A
Boeing KC-135 test pilot on return from a test flight told me in a
debriefing that they had been struck by lightning during the flight, and
all of the compass instruments, and some of the other flight gauges,
were now not working correctly.
We checked and found that the compasses were pointing in all different directions -- except the correct one.
We started the repair by replacing the simplest part -- the cockpit
whiskey compass. The new one pointed in the wrong direction, as well. My
crew and I were dumbfounded. We thought that maybe we had a bad part,
so we replaced it again. This one also performed the same as the first
replacement.
Read more here!
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Re: Lightning Knocks Out Aircraft's Compass
