In an almost unheard of and unprecedented scenario, an Air Force helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing in Manassas, Virginia after someone shot at the helicopter from the ground.
The incident happened Monday, and military sources are now revealing the dangerous incident, which actually injured a member of the crew.
McClatchy details that a UH-1N Huey helicopter which flew out of Joint Base Andrews — where Marine helicopters which routinely fly members of Congress as well as the president are based (in the president's case, Marine One, as well as Air Force One are housed there) — was on a routine training flight after an unknown individual or individuals fired on it from the ground.
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-WiscoDave
Find the bastards and hang them!
ReplyDeleteI remember back in the 60s/early 70s, B-52s were landing with more holes in them than they took off with. It was eventually traced back to a disgruntled dairy farmer popping them with his .22 rifle when they were on final, because the noise was upsetting his dairy cows.
ReplyDeleteThe Air Force is still using Hueys?
ReplyDeleteMarine Corps still uses them, very versatile choppers and with the latest updates make it a more powerful helicopter!!!! Grayman
DeletePaging any handy A10s . . .
ReplyDeleteHumm.. there are two outdoor ranges in that area.. I wonder if they were flying too low downrange of one of them?
ReplyDeleteOut by Middleburg? Where, I'm looking for an outdoor range in the area, closest I could find is WV. Those AF UH1s fly over and circle my house all the time...I think the school across the street is a point where they are supposed to circle or something, they're low, couple hundred feet.
DeleteMay be time to give Huey an Apache escort.
ReplyDeleteSounds like they need a couple of door gunners.
ReplyDeleteah,just good ol boys plinking. or retired nva having a flashback.
ReplyDeleteCouple tubes of Zunis would do the job.
ReplyDeleteCould be some redneck, but I wonder if it isn't a false flag to make Virginia gun owners look bad. I'm not saying it didn't happen, just that the narrative won't match the facts. I hear their Governor is rather anti-2A and this will certainly add fuel to his fire...
ReplyDeleteSo much for “big sky, little bullet.”
ReplyDeleteWhen the Army finds this guy the question is will they ever admit it?
ReplyDeleteBack in the 80's the Beeville Navy Jet school was sitting 21 year olds in the driver's seat of $21 million jet airplanes and those punk kids loved to coming flying in a tree-top level and scattering cows and making jump off my tractor. They flew in three's and after awhile of putting up with it, I began shooting the punks with a 270. Don't know if I ever hit one, nothing went down burning nearby, but I did hear of others crashing, and I felt good about that. fuckem
ReplyDeleteAnd the crew saw nothing?
ReplyDeleteNo muzzle-flashes?
I might be too sceptical at times, but did anybody check for holes during their pre-flight inspections?
I have zero experience in the matter, but I hear aircraft are easier to target while they are stationary on the ground.
It must have been about 15 years ago, now, when a guy shot down a police helicopter with an M1A in Albuquerque. He got pissed off because it was circling his house in the middle of the night while he was trying to sleep. So, he stepped outside and put a round or two into the helo, forcing it to land.
ReplyDeleteThe guy was never charged with anything but discharging a firearm in city limits because, the DA discovered, there was no law against shooting an aircraft.