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"In this area, they saw an orange buoy, an airplane seat, small white pieces, an airplane turbine as well as oil and kerosene.
Shallow water, or light turbine?
Folk should get some idea of the scale of potential power when talking about lightning. The worst scenario could see an aircraft vaporized. The total energy in a mature cell is up there with an atomic bomb. It's just that the the discharge is seldom focused in line with an airborn hull.
Faraday cages, and fiber-optic's immunity, is nothing but wishful thinking.
I know from personal experience, that a 'bolt' can enter an aircraft. The light intensity, once the sheath has been irradiated away, would saturate then destroy the fiber data-lines.
A discharge goes much where it wants. My biggest went in what became a 4" hole in the top of the wing, round the rubber fuel bags, and out a similar hole - in line with the top hole. I'm under no illusion that if the 'bolt' had been more vigorous, we'd have lost the wing in moments.