F-16 shoots the control tower.

Maybe the norwegian air force needs some basic gun safety training.

  • Always keep your firearm pointed in a safe direction.
  • Treat ALL firearms as if they were loaded.
  • Keep your trigger finger outside the trigger guard and off of the trigger until you are ready to fire.
  • Be certain of your target, your line of fire, and what lies beyond your target.
 
The first three don't really apply, but the fourth does.
 
I spent a year running a live bombing range. This stuff happens a lot, it usually doesn't make the news.
 
Hung out at one in Korea that, at the time, F-4s used. Fortunately we didn't get shot that day.
 
Jeez, I don't think I have gotten that riled up about my landing order before. That there is some serious approach rage!
 
So they were shooting TPT, inert practice rounds. Good thing for the folks inside.
 
Probably just didn't approve the fly-by.


By the way, if I wanted to do a fly-by, not sure why I'd want to, but let's just say... and tower tells me negative, the pattern is full, but I just charge through there anyway, will I just get a slap on the wrist?
 
The story is that Sven was having some trouble with his radio. He just couldn't find the transmit button on the stick in his F16. Sven tried pushing this button and that, testing just about all of them except the cannon button, but nothing worked. Meanwhile, up in the tower, Ole decided that Sven must have gone NORDO again, so Ole got out the light gun. As usual, however, Ole couldn't remember which colors to blink, so he just tried every color. All this colorful light flashing got Sven fixated -- Sven just couldn't look anywhere else, and being fixated on the tower, he flew straight toward it. Ole just kept blinking his light, and finally Sven decided he'd better get on the radio and tell his friend, "Ole, you dummy, I see you right in front of me and your light gun button is stuck again." Trying to transmit this message, Sven pushed every everything on his stick, once again, because he still couldn't remember which controlled the radio. Except that this time Sven also tried the button for the cannon.

And now you know the rest of the story.
 
rbridges said:
seriously?
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Oh yes. Usually it's an inert bomb that hits a truck in the parking lot, strafing something that isn't really a practice target (like the range tower), or just dropping something off the range.

It's kind of scary to be on the ground and see this little tiny F-16 pop up from low level looking like a high speed dot, or fly, and start descending. It's really hard to see where the little thing is pointed until it starts to shoot or drop something.

An F-15 is just as fast, but it's huge and has adult supervision from the back seat. An A-10 is huge and slow, those guys rarely screw up.
 
Yeah…….at 500 knots when everything basically looks the same out in the desert, and the "control tower" i.e. spotting tower (which BTW are mostly un-manned these days due to modern technology) is the only visually significant thing within a mile of the target (which is generally less visually significant)………….this mistake happens on occasion. Normally nobody gets hurt, and the pilot gets washed out if in training, FNAEB'd if operational, or if lucky, walks away with a severe dick hammering. It isn't something taken lightly by any means.
 
"Almost hitting three...". I thought almost only happened with houseshoes, handgrenades, and thermal nuclear devices.
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And I bet I get on a watch list now.
 
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