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Old 4th October 2008 | 08:58
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Romeo India Xray
 
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Bullets and Fuselages

Yesterday I was talking with an Il-76 crew who work in Africa and disaster zones. They told me about a time they picked up 6 bullets in the wing and 3 around the door in the fuselage. The first they knew about it was after landing even though the wing bullets had penetrated one of the outboard fuel tanks. Obviously I knew, as a pilot, that the presence of a few bullet holes should not compromise safety unless you were REALLY unlucky, but this was the first instance I had heard of in a large commercial transport.

Overhead locker fire is likely to create bigger problems through fumes, but thi sort of thing is so extreemly rare that I can't remember reading of a single instance (and I have read AAIB and NTSB reports, monthly for the last 17 years).

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