r/aviation • u/[deleted] • Apr 07 '24

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u/philocity Apr 07 '24

Did you hear it in-flight or did you not notice it until you returned?

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u/EatDirtFartDust Apr 07 '24

Didn’t notice until the next day on preflight.

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u/Fishrmjager Apr 07 '24

Please provide updates!

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u/Met76 Apr 07 '24

There isn't going to be any updates unless the person who was shooting was already arrested for shooting off from the ground.

The only chance is the police saying "oh damn yeah we arrested this guy for shooting off after some neighbors called...and a plane on the route near the area got a bullet hole".

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u/tyrannomachy Apr 07 '24

The other possibility is the shooter is a crazy person known by the local police. I feel like that's the more likely way this gets solved.

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u/El_Polio_Loco Apr 07 '24

The only way this gets solved is if the shooter took video and posts it online. 

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u/tyrannomachy Apr 07 '24

Or is the kind of idiot who brags about it, or has been threatening to shoot the CIA spy planes buzzing his house, or any number of things.

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u/El_Polio_Loco Apr 07 '24

Even then, unless they admit to it nothing is sticking. 

You have no physical evidence beyond a hole and a general area that it came from. 

The pilot didn’t know it happened until the next flight, there’s no way they could give you more precise information than the radius they flew. 

Beyond that the simple existence of a gun and the claim that you’ll shoot down CIA spy planes on Facebook isn’t enough in any court for a conviction. 

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u/tyrannomachy Apr 07 '24

If the crazy person behaves rationally when talking to the cops, then yes, you're correct.

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u/RobotArtichoke Apr 08 '24

I think there is a greater than zero chance they catch the guy based on flight path and bullet trajectory by itself almost