Foudroyé

In French there is a single word, "foudroyé", for what takes three words in English: "struck by lightning".

CNN.com is, right now, streaming its French language coverage of the missing Airbus 330, en route from Brazil, which may have been foudroyé somewhere between Brazil and the coast of French West Africa.

http://www.cnn.com/video/flashLive/live.html?stream=stream1