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#4469744 - 04/10/19 10:20 AM Dutch F-16 makes emergency landing after plane shoots itself  
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Dutch F-16 makes emergency landing after plane shoots itself

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A Dutch F-16 fighter jet flying a training exercise over the Netherlands scored a direct hit — on itself — when the pilot fired the aircraft’s 20mm rotary cannon.

Sometimes, even inanimate objects will do anything to get out of training.

The Royal Netherlands Air Force pilot was able to make an emergency landing at Leeuwarden Air Base after the plane suffered “considerable damage,” according to a report from Dutch state media.

At least one round ripped through the jet’s exterior, the report said, while munition fragments were also found in the aircraft’s engine.


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#4470394 - 04/14/19 09:43 AM Re: Dutch F-16 makes emergency landing after plane shoots itself [Re: F4UDash4]  
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Probably needed a new flight suit and fresh set of drawers after that one...

#4470396 - 04/14/19 11:13 AM Re: Dutch F-16 makes emergency landing after plane shoots itself [Re: F4UDash4]  
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Sounds like it was doing ground attack training. Impacts with ricochets are quite common under the right(?) impact conditions, and risk of impacts is always present, especially if there is a hard target.

Rarer, but also seen are impacts from high speed, long range fire in air-air shooting, where the aircraft catches up with the stream of shells a long time after firing.


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