I wonder what would happen if one hits an airplane. The meteor will be going much faster in the thin air, so it could potentially go right through.
That little dustup between 1939 and 1945 gave us a whole lot of information about what happens when you poke big holes in airplanes.
I actually had a retired 747 TWA pilot tell me he believed TWA 800 was brought down by a meteor.
“I wonder what would happen if one hits an airplane.
A few have suggested that a meteor may have brought down Flight 800 from JFK to Rome. Not everyone buys the NTSB report that it was the center gas tank. I attended a seminar on this discussion.