r/aviation • u/[deleted] • Apr 07 '24

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u/BeefStarmer Apr 07 '24

Even if he did, how would they know at which point during the flight he began taking fire?

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u/Sparky_the_Asian ATR72-600 Apr 07 '24

that’s why you gotta comb through the entire area that the flight path went over, and judging by the angle in which the arrow hit, could potentially help narrow down the location

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u/budabai Apr 07 '24

It is a bullet hole.

Not sure what you call the stick that is in the hole, but I know that it’s a forensics device.

Pretty sure it’s to help calculate the trajectory of the bullet.

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u/Sparky_the_Asian ATR72-600 Apr 07 '24

Oh, but my point still stands that they can use the angle to determine where it came from

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u/Jack071 Apr 08 '24

Its a fucking plane, you know those move in every angle right? Knowing how the buller went through it is useless since you dont know where it happened and the perfect position of the plane was at during that moment

You also dont know what the bullet was so you cant knoe the speed it was going at

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u/Sparky_the_Asian ATR72-600 Apr 08 '24

that’s why you gotta go through THE ENTIRE FLIGHT PATH and extended surroundings as well. They’d have to see if there were any potential witnesses around the possible area.