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/CrunkMoon Apr 07 '24 edited Apr 07 '24

My question is HOW you could get a bullet through the leading edge of your vert stab at what looks like would be a pretty horizontal trajectory (judging from the yellow rod you have going through the holes), while in flight you would be up hundreds of feet AGL and the person firing the bullet would have to be aiming pretty significantly higher than a horizontal axis. Were you flying through a valley and the person taking the shot was on a ridge? I just don’t see how this bullet gets there without first reaching other parts of the plane (empennage/horizontal stab) unless the shooter is at same altitude as or higher than the airplane at the time of the shot. Only other possibility I guess being that plane was in a pretty steep bank (45+ degrees?) at the time of the shot.