An outgrowth of the legendary "center fuel tank explosion" on TWA flight 800. Most commercial planes use a nitrogen harvesting and injection system for the fuel tanks these days. (There are some competing technologies, I'll leave it to the experts as to whether any of them are actually in service.)
It's not like these systems are cutting edge at this point.
“An outgrowth of the legendary “center fuel tank explosion” on TWA flight 800”
Lol, I get a kick out of them having to invent fanciful lies to cover their behinds.
Whatever happened, it wasn’t the OBIGG. If that failed during a lighting storm, the bird would have exploded, not glided in.
And the F35 can fly in a storm. There is a very minor risk of the plane exploding — if everything goes wrong and the OBIGG had not been updated — if struck by lightning.
Now, a very remote chance is still a chance one doesn’t take if possible.
But this sounds like some sort of cascade computer failure — possibly caused by lightning. Or (more likely) someone putting in the wrong software module.