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Student pilot comes under fire while landing a plane at Gardner Airport
Authorities are investigating after a bullet hole was found in a plane at Gardner Municipal Airport on Monday. The Federal Aviation Administration said the pilot of a single-engine Cessna 172 reported a bullet hole in the gas tank after landing. The pilot tells Boston 25 he was two minutes away from landing and about 700 feet in the air when the bullet went through, hitting the fuel tank. Student pilot Dan Black says he and his instructor were practicing landing in the four-seater single-engine… (www.yahoo.com) और अधिक...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
with Lazer attacks on aircraft are rising it seems plausible for these yahoos to take it to the next level. When I was flying the tier states we were landing in Lincoln Nebraska. approach told us to maintain 4500 ft until 2 miles out because national guard helicopters were caught rustling cattle and they were shooting at low flying helicopters.
Until someone is caught, and that might never happen, we will never know if it was intentional or accidental.
Accident Maybe, but a Random shot in the air is just stupid... The person who did this even if it was not intentional needs to be held accountable... What goes up, must come down. If you pull the trigger you are to be held accountable. If not the plane, it could have come down and killed someone miles away! I hope they catch this idiot and throws him under the jail!
Is there an an outdoor gun range nearby? If so maybe it was a stray bullet?
That would be one very stray Bullet... I cannot see that happening.... I know mistakes taken, but I just cannot see that much of a stray bullet from a legitimate range... nor can I imagine an outdoor range that close to an Airport!
Guns don't shoot airplanes, people shoot airplanes...with guns.
Who here can recite the first four words of the 2nd Amendment and explain them?? It's past time we obeyed those words.
Who here can recite the first four words of the 2nd Amendment and explain them?? It's past time we obeyed those words.