Originally Posted by
Stuart Sutcliffe
Admittedly, the lightning strike damage photo in one of the links earlier in this thread is utterly obvious, but I wonder what it looks like on the interior side of the aircraft skin? I suspect it is going to need a patch repair (in whatever form that takes on a composite aircraft ...) much bigger than the visible exterior hole.
Very long thread on PPRuNe about the groundbreaking repair to the fire-damaged ET 787 at Heathrow, nearly 10 years ago now:
Ethiopian 787 fire at Heathrow
Well worth a read.