PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Dutch F-16 flies into its own bullets, scores self-inflicted hits. Fighter lands OK.

8th Apr 2019, 05:38

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There was an Aermacchi in NZ that suffered similar. Turns out the range sandpit had lots of lead bullets sitting in the target region, and ricochet occurred.
Range Ops were suspended until it was dug up and filtered.

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