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Sunny day at the office by Shawn from Airdrie, Canada, edited by Australian Aviation. (CC BY-SA 2.0)
‘A deafening bang tore through the cockpit’
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Lightning is loud when it hits your aircraft, but the real noise comes after, when the cockpit goes black, the radios die, and you realise the only thing keeping you level is your own hands. At 9,000 feet over the Snowy Mountains, a routine night flight turned into a fight for control that tested every piece of training I had.
The day had already been long. I’d flown a morning run to Coffs Harbour and back before meeting a family of five, their nanny, and enough ski gear to outfit the entire Snowy Mountains.
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