Originally Posted by
corporate-wage-slave
What did the Flight Deck say in their pre-flight briefing?
Broadly speaking lightning strikes do create circumstances for extraordinary circumstances, however what BA does about it is under their control. The checks do take a few hours, 5 hours seems within that margin particularly if the aircraft manufacturer had to be contacted. What you can do is still push for CEDR, where someone else will have a look at the timings and reach a judgement about "all reasonable measures".
We boarded on time. Pre-flight, the Captain said something along the lines of: they found an external sensor was faulty and they didn't know how long it would take to fix. He gave updates about every hour and in the end he said they removed the sensor to get us going.
The Captain never said lighting strike, but it is consistent with BA's response. If the plane had just arrived, then I can accept the extraordinary circumstances argument.
Is anyone able to find out when the plane arrived? Although I'm not certain, I seem to remember that it came from SFO the day before. I would feel very confident going to CEDR if I knew that the plane sat on the ground overnight and BA hadn't fixed it (or swapped aircraft) when they had the opportunity.
BA 295 LHR-ORD 2022-07-30