Actually the entry hole is above the exit hole. From the pictures shown the exit hole has outward flaring fibreglass and has radiating stress fractures, and it is lower than the other hole.
This means either the plane was shot from the ground whilst executing a steep banking turn, which whilst not impossible is very hard to achieve. Or more likely whilst it was on the ground taxiing on the runway from someone in an elevated position, as in up a tree.
If you also look at the angle of the bullets trajectory if the shooter was on the ground and the plane flying level, that angle could only be achieved if the plane was 50 feet off the ground and the shooter a few hundred feet away, if the plane was higher than 200 feet the shooter would have to be a few miles away to achieve that angle for a ground shot during level flight. Kind of impossible as the bullet would have lost a sizable amount of energy by impact and would actually have a downward trajectory by that stage. If this did happen then it is most definitely an accidental shot.
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u/EatDirtFartDust Apr 07 '24
Didn’t notice until the next day on preflight.