[GOP Poet]

The question still remains. Was there even a weather system with lightening in their vicinity? That foundational question has not even been satisfied as a truism at this point. It keeps being put out there but still with all the weather satellites and their data at our fingertips, there is no confirmation.

[GovernmentShrinker]

There has been plenty of confirmation that major thunderstorms were in the plane’s flight path, and the following analyst believes there was lightning as well, based on the other confirmed attributes of the storm systems, and explains why definitive confirmation may simply not be available.
http://www.weathergraphics.com/tim/af447/