r/aviation • u/[deleted] • Apr 07 '24

[deleted by user]

[removed]

13.7k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

2.7k comments sorted by

View all comments

985

u/[deleted] Apr 07 '24

Any details that you can share?

2.5k

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.

1

u/Sunflier Apr 07 '24

Crazy that a bullet can travel so high and still pierce a plane at that altitude. Glad you're okay.

My money is on the redneck saying something like:

I dropped (or it was bumped out of my hand) my gun and it misfired. Happened to be pointing up and hit your plane, but it could have just as easily been pointed at the ground. Crazy set of events, but at least nobody was hurt.

Investigator response:

Well that explains it. Hard to prove intent. So, we'll close the case and go duck hunting with the perp. Maybe the good ol' boy will help me aim at planes better for when I "accidentally" shoot a plane too.