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Originally Posted by LimaCharlie
What is the thing/part that went flying from the front landing gear?
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Looks like a chunk tarmac or a metal tiedown taken out from the force of the lighting trying to find an exit. Something on the tarmac must have attracted it to fire out the side rather than the nose cone like it's supposed to.
It's also why you see all (or most) airliners with that ridged nose cone, it protects the radar and also helps channel the lightning across the skin. This strike looks like it went through the airframe and out the skin.. odd.
In any case, the aircraft will be grounded and have all electronics pulled and inspected, probably a full D check where it's torn down to the frame to make sure it didn't do anything more than travel where it was supposed to along the airframe.
Closest I've been was around 20-25 feet from a strike in all three cases. Tree in the front yard got struck twice before it finally died, and one in the back of our neighbor's yard got cored out by a strike. Latter killed everything in his next door neighbors house and in our house killed the garage door. When we pulled the board it was black.
Got a new door out of insurance for free, which was nice because we needed one. Also thankfully, all my stuff was plugged into multiple surge protectors, so all I got was a momentary blip in power and cable feed before I knew what was going on..