Don't worry, I have plenty of experience when it comes to weapon effects and targeting. Like quite a few on this forum I also got reasonably good at chucking practice bombs at ships by day and by night. So no, no assumptions needed.
You're not the SHAR pilot who bombed his own carrier rather than the splash target with a practice bomb are you?
IIRC, it went through not only the flight deck, but also 2 more decks before stopping in one of the Messes.....