re: #454 FrogMarch

After a lighting strike and horrible turbulence, something may have happened to the pilot’s ability to fly the plane.

“I would suggest that potentially it went down very quickly and so quickly that the pilot on board didn’t have a chance to make that emergency call,”

A sudden catastrophic aircraft failure is extraordinarily rare. An airplane is a faraday cage, lightning seldom does serious damage. Turbulence sufficent to cause an in flight airframe failure is also rare.

We do know of one cause that would cause sudden in flight catastrophic failure, which might manifest as a electric fault signal.

A bomb.

To soon to tell, to many possibilities.