Airbus is complete fly by wire, so a fried craft would have nothing to do but crash. No way to physically wrestle it down.
AIR-ASIA PLANE WRECKAGE FOUND OFF BELITUNG ISLAND - REPORTS
That just strengthens my suspicion that lightning may have been the culprit. Hit in the right place and that’s all she wrote. They do all they can when they build planes to keep that from happening but they can only do so much.
I flew out of Lubbock to DFW last April on an American Eagle plane. Climbing up, maybe around 20,000 feet, we were hit by lightning. It was obvious with the flash and instantaneous sound but no loss of power. It was a couple of minutes before the captain came on and said everything was o.k. and we would continue to DFW. I presume he spent the previous few minutes checking systems before making the announcement. I was very happy when were landed at DFW but I had to change planes immediately for Mississippi.
I guess it depends on where on the plane that lightning strikes as to what happens. Hopefully there are areas of the fuselage or wings that are designed specifically to a receive lightning strike, similar to those on buildings.