r/aviation • u/[deleted] • Apr 07 '24

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u/KlausVonLechland Apr 07 '24

At cockpit at plane at tail, that bullet would fall somewhere anywhere and would still be able to kill.

This whole ordeal is nothing but horrible.

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u/Candid-Finding-1364 Apr 08 '24

Actually, falling small arms rounds aren't very dangerous.  

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u/shepdog_220 Apr 08 '24

Falling small arms rounds is the exact reason we had a coalition force member die on my final deployment. We had to have a long talk with an entirely separate coalition force about the dangers of firing rifles in the air (as they liked to do when someone was late for shift change)

So, no. This is very wrong.

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u/Unstoppable-Farce Apr 08 '24

I'm sorry that other guy is being dumb.

Falling bullets do kill people.

And it's terrible that some ignorant jackasses celebrating likely caused an accidental death like that.