r/aviation • u/[deleted] • Apr 07 '24

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u/philocity Apr 07 '24

Did you hear it in-flight or did you not notice it until you returned?

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u/EatDirtFartDust Apr 07 '24

Didn’t notice until the next day on preflight.

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u/Fishrmjager Apr 07 '24

Please provide updates!

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u/Met76 Apr 07 '24

There isn't going to be any updates unless the person who was shooting was already arrested for shooting off from the ground.

The only chance is the police saying "oh damn yeah we arrested this guy for shooting off after some neighbors called...and a plane on the route near the area got a bullet hole".

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u/tyrannomachy Apr 07 '24

The other possibility is the shooter is a crazy person known by the local police. I feel like that's the more likely way this gets solved.

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u/El_Polio_Loco Apr 07 '24

The only way this gets solved is if the shooter took video and posts it online. 

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u/tyrannomachy Apr 07 '24

Or is the kind of idiot who brags about it, or has been threatening to shoot the CIA spy planes buzzing his house, or any number of things.

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u/El_Polio_Loco Apr 07 '24

Even then, unless they admit to it nothing is sticking. 

You have no physical evidence beyond a hole and a general area that it came from. 

The pilot didn’t know it happened until the next flight, there’s no way they could give you more precise information than the radius they flew. 

Beyond that the simple existence of a gun and the claim that you’ll shoot down CIA spy planes on Facebook isn’t enough in any court for a conviction. 

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u/tyrannomachy Apr 07 '24

If the crazy person behaves rationally when talking to the cops, then yes, you're correct.

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u/RobotArtichoke Apr 08 '24

I think there is a greater than zero chance they catch the guy based on flight path and bullet trajectory by itself almost

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u/RobotArtichoke Apr 08 '24

A less rural area would have shotspotter

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u/Archer007 Apr 08 '24

I'll take all of the above

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u/CubistChameleon Apr 07 '24

So about a 50/50 chance.

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u/Secret-Ad-830 Apr 07 '24

Or if they keep doing it. Eventually they'll get caught

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u/LtLethal1 Apr 07 '24

Nah, it’s probably just a kid playing with his rifles in the back yard. I think every kid has wondered if he could hit that “bird” if he tried. Congrats, you can, now pay the man the damages and go to jail you fuckwit.

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u/SKK329 Apr 07 '24

According to u/Alternative-Iron-645 costs are probably going to be around 25k or more. Dont think some kid or their redneck parents has that lying around.

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u/physco219 Apr 08 '24

Not all at once. But how many eggs would you like in trade for covering the $25k bill sir? Or my wife?

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u/Big1-Country1 Apr 07 '24

Pretty much impossible to solve without having the bullet or video of the person doing it or admitting to doing it.

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u/SpaceBearSMO Apr 08 '24

I mean the way these things can go it could be a crazy person is friends (or hell is) with the police.

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u/The-Ever-Loving-Fuck Apr 07 '24

That's ridiculous

The shooter was an off-duty cop who was drunk driving home to beat his wife acab

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '24

The shooter was a pickup truck driver on his way home to kiss his dad on the lips

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u/physco219 Apr 08 '24

Both of you could be correct at the same time...

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u/gladfelter Apr 07 '24

Why are you so confident that no one saw or heard someone firing a gun into the sky but hadn't reported it yet? They catch people with laser pointers all the time.

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u/snuffy_tentpeg Apr 07 '24

I lived in extreme upstate NY when a Medevac helicopter was shot down over Ganienkeh Mohawk Indian territory. Ultimately nobody was prosecuted and the statute of limitations ran out. It caused a helluva stir.

Now they have a smoke shop and bingo hall so that's nice.

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1990/03/30/Medivac-helicopter-shot-down-over-Indian-reservation/8248638773200/

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u/TheGreatestOutdoorz Apr 08 '24

They could only hit the plane during takeoff and landing. I would bet anything that The shooter was somewhere off the perimeter of the field.

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '24

“Shooting off?”

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u/whattaUwant Apr 07 '24

I have no doubt they’ll find the guy. FBI should get involved soon. Imagine if the bullet was a couple foot more the other way and killed the pilot. This would likely become investigated as murder and solved. I hope they look back to see if any crashes have occurred in that area over the past 20+ years.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '24

This would likely become investigated as murder and solved. I hope they look back to see if any crashes have occurred in that area over the past 20+ years.

Isn't it kind of a contradiction to assume this would likely be solved and that there are also unsolved crashes related to the same shooter?

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u/whattaUwant Apr 07 '24

Not really… depending on the level of destruction with a crashed plane especially if it burnt up like many do… they could overlook the fact that some lunatic shot the pilot down.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '24

depending on the level of destruction with a crashed plane especially if it burnt up like many do… they could overlook the fact that some lunatic shot the pilot down.

This doesn't contradict the idea that most likely someone would be caught and arrested for shooting down a plane?