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There are no radar screens for transatlantic flights. But again, it is also a stretch to think that lightening strikes at 39,000 feet and would take down a large aircraft; there are no events that support this scenario.
If a lightning strike is what happened it almost certainly is not all that happened. The plane was flying into a severe storm, and my guess is that the storm that birthed the strike had more to do with the crash than the strike itself, although a lightning strike could definitely be the immediate cause as it caused certain systems (which may have been partially damaged already) to fail. This is all conjecture, but planes are not storm proof by any stretch of imagination.
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