re: #454 FrogMarch

After a lighting strike and horrible turbulence, something may have happened to the pilot’s ability to fly the plane.

“I would suggest that potentially it went down very quickly and so quickly that the pilot on board didn’t have a chance to make that emergency call,”

Once back in the Gulf we lost an EA6B Prowler that just “disappeared” from radar on a night mission. We never found a trace of that plane or crew after 3 days of searching. No indication of any problems, it just went down quick with no mayday. Some speculated it was from a lightning strike.