Graham's further information about the incident begs lots more questions
which only the people involved can answer, and we should try and get
answers from them if possible.
For example, 1. How many people were involved in the refuelling process.
Was someone holding the funnel and someone else pouring from the can. In
that event the discharge might have been from one person via the can to the
other holding the funnel. 2. Was he, or were they, wearing rubber soled
shoes, or what. 3. What sort of clothing were they wearing. The rubbing
of their clothing could have caused a build up of static. 4. Just before
the discharge had he, or they changed position, touched something else. 5.
Was there thunder in the air.
There are so many possible sources of the static, and reasons for its
sudden discharge that only a very detailed description of the incident is
likely to lead us to the reason for what is, in practice, a very unusual
incident, but a very dangerous one nevertheless.
Frank Mycroft
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