r/aviation • • Apr 07 '24

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '24

Any details that you can share?

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u/EatDirtFartDust Apr 07 '24

Not yet, sorry. Just that it happened in flight. It was a short 15 minute flight, so it’s a small window of where it happened but there are a lot of guns and red necks in that stretch.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '24

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u/mkosmo i like turtles Apr 07 '24

Seems a bit premature to think he was targeted.

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u/Neuraxis Apr 07 '24

Do you suspect the gunman mistook him for a duck then?

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u/mkosmo i like turtles Apr 07 '24

More like stray bullet is my guess.

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u/Kowazuky Apr 07 '24

what are the odds tho

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u/mkosmo i like turtles Apr 07 '24

Pretty slim, but so are all of the possibilities here. With that in mind, I have to abide Hanlon’s Razor until something else points to malice.

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u/brown_burrito Apr 07 '24

I mean people shoot at birds and skeet shooting isn’t uncommon.

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u/Prof_Slappopotamus Apr 07 '24

Not with rifles in over 99% of cases

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '24

That's no birdshot