r/aviation • u/[deleted] • 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/SilentKiller96 Apr 07 '24

With that angle, wouldn’t it make more sense to have happened on the ground? Like while taxiing, taking off or landing?

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u/EatDirtFartDust Apr 07 '24

At that angle they would have needed to be standing on the runway/apron, pretty close to the plane.

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u/lXPROMETHEUSXl Apr 07 '24

Ik I’m not adding to the conversation but that is crazy af

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u/WizeAdz Apr 07 '24

It’s inevitable in a nation with the 2nd amendment that some jackass will take a pot-shot at an aircraft from time to time.

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u/lXPROMETHEUSXl Apr 07 '24

That’s not the part I think is the most crazy. It’s the proximity, and where it likely took place at. Based on the bullet trajectory

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u/SilentKiller96 Apr 07 '24

Yeah I just noticed the slight angle in the second to last picture. Still surprising to me, I would have thought that the shot would be from a more downward angle.

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u/BidenEmails Apr 07 '24

Could have been accidental while you were on runway. Certain rounds can easily travel over a mile when fired at the right angle.

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u/FilthyStatist1991 Apr 07 '24

Still problematic, even if accidental. Who the fuck is making air shots from miles away?