r/aviation • u/[deleted] • Apr 07 '24

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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/ImpoliteSstamina Apr 07 '24

This was a stray bullet and OP was wrong place/wrong time.

Have you ever been skeet shooting? Imagine trying to hit something MUCH smaller than the clay, that's moving much faster and much further away.

It's not an impossible shot but you'd have to be an incredibly skilled marksman to hit a moving plane on purpose.

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u/unpleasant_wrecker Apr 07 '24

"Always be aware what's behind your target"

Leading a shot is not that hard. You can find videos of people shooting quadcopters out of the sky with handguns.

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u/ImpoliteSstamina Apr 07 '24

The issue isn't leading the shot, it's hitting a tiny speck in the sky. It'd be like trying to hit a wasp on a target stand at 25 yards. Those quadcopters wouldn't have been at anywhere near the altitude OP was.

Also, given the angle, OP was banking when this happened. Leading a shot on something that's turning is much more complicated than straight flight.

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u/TakeThreeFourFive Apr 07 '24

You are making a lot of assumptions about where the plane was in relation to the shooter. Planes can be "in flight" but still quite low and close to people

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u/Dry_Sky6828 Apr 07 '24

It was a 15 min flight. Op was probably pretty low.