{"id":86120,"date":"2019-04-09T10:30:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T14:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=86120"},"modified":"2019-04-08T20:34:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T00:34:07","slug":"plane-shoots-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=86120","title":{"rendered":"Plane Shoots Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Words fail me on this one.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/off-duty\/military-culture\/2019\/04\/08\/dutch-f-16-makes-emergency-landing-after-plane-shoots-itself\/<\/a><\/p>\n

An F-16 shot itself with a 20mm round.<\/p>\n

There is, as the article indicates, a history of another plane shooting itself:<\/p>\n

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Thomas W. Attridge Jr.<\/a>\u00a0became the first pilot to do so in September 1956 when, flying as a test pilot for Grumman, the 33-year-old former Navy officer shot down his own F11F-1 Tiger, similar to the variant used by the Blue Angels during the 1960s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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At an altitude of 20,000 feet, Attridge entered into a dive while firing the Tiger\u2019s 20mm rotary cannon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Continuing the dive all the way to 7,000 feet, Attridge exhausted the gun\u2019s ammunition before the plane was hit by what he presumed to be a bird strike.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Before long, however, the engine began to fail, and his emergency return to the Grumman airstrip was cut short as he crashed through a thicket of trees just short of the runway. – Article<\/p>\n

Skynet goes active at 12:00 hours.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Words fail me on this one. https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/off-duty\/military-culture\/2019\/04\/08\/dutch-f-16-makes-emergency-landing-after-plane-shoots-itself\/ An F-16 shot itself with a 20mm round. There … Plane Shoots Itself<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}