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Old September 27th 19, 06:05 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Default ASW 27 destroyed by lightning in trailer

On Thursday, September 26, 2019 at 8:31:11 PM UTC-7, Steve Leonard wrote:
On Thursday, September 26, 2019 at 8:27:06 PM UTC-5, 2G wrote:

The photo of the trailer showed a strike mark near the front of the trailer where the carpet ends. This indicated to me that it exited out of the bottom of the nose.

Tom


Hi Tom,
Looks to me like that picture is looking up into the fin box. I don't see any gray floor in that pic, but black like in the glass top of the trailer. There is red carpet visible in the elevator drive box, and burn marks on the white foam (owner added?) that might kinda line up with the top of the vertical being in there.

Just another opinion.
Steve Leonard


Without better identification of where the photos were taken, we are just guessing. It seemed plausible to me that the exit point was on the trailer floor to the ground, but lightning does go many directions.

Tom