Originally Posted by Dani
ChristiaanJ, where does it say that the incident happened on approach or even below FL100?
I have corrected my initial "on final approach", but it still happened only about 10 minutes before landing, i.e. not the time you go and clean your gun.
I guess they descended quite fast as soon as the bang stopped...
I doubt it, since they didn't notify ATC.
For the other argument against mine: If he is stupid to discharge the weapon, why shouldn't he do it on approach? It's obvious he laid the weapon on the side pedestal, where he might left it during cruise, did the last few manipulations, charging movement, pulled the trigger, bammm!
Valid point... if he's stupid enough to discharge the gun, he'd also be stupid enough to play with it at the time he would have had better things to do.
Pulling apart the gun isn't that difficult after all. You basically have three or for big parts on a modern gun: grip, magazine, barrel. You need a feather to put the barrel in place. There are no small parts falling around. If you can do the servicing on a dirty fighting ground, you surely can do it in a cockpit.
Valid point, too. I never handled an H&K, and with older ones that I have had apart, I usually ended up with a few smaller parts as well.
We'll see !
CJ