[flintsilver7]

OK, so pretend that twenty times more energy was involved. Would the debris be the same size?

This isn’t a hard concept to understand. It’s essentially the difference between a .22LR round and a .243 Winchester round. Go look at what the two rounds do to ballistics gel.

[don-o]

OK, so pretend that twenty times more energy was involved. Would the debris be the same size?

Would it be 1/20th the size? Is the same force of impact applied to every square inch of the plane and its contents? Obviously not.