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Norwegian fighter jet mistakenly machine-guns control tower
guardian ^

Posted on 04/25/2016 12:40:09 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Edited on 04/25/2016 12:45:48 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

It is the second time in six years the tower has been fired on in error by F-16 jets

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: nato; norway; oops
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To: BenLurkin

This is my aircraft, this is the gun.

This is for flying, this is for fun.


21 posted on 04/25/2016 12:58:15 PM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: BenLurkin
Tower, this is Ghost Rider requesting a flyby.

Negative, Ghost Rider, the pattern is full.

OK you better duck then

22 posted on 04/25/2016 12:58:29 PM PDT by showme_the_Glory ((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
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To: BenLurkin
"Sorry, Ghostrider, the pattern is full."

Oh yeah? I'll show you full ...

23 posted on 04/25/2016 12:58:59 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("When judges act like whores, they can hardly expect to be treated like nuns.")
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To: BenLurkin

What pilot has not wanted to do that ?


24 posted on 04/25/2016 1:01:59 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: BenLurkin

Whoopsie!


25 posted on 04/25/2016 1:04:25 PM PDT by stanne
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To: BenLurkin

If the island is uninhabited, why are folks in the control tower?


26 posted on 04/25/2016 1:05:06 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: Larry Lucido

That is EXACTLY what I was thinking.
Scary.


27 posted on 04/25/2016 1:10:11 PM PDT by MIA_eccl1212 (10 rounds 10 meters 10 seconds 10 centimetres)
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To: Farmer Dean

Nothing like an A-10 30mm wake-up call.

The F-16 20mm pop-gun is just noise. . . .

;-)


28 posted on 04/25/2016 1:18:56 PM PDT by Hulka
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To: BenLurkin

I hate when a F-16 mistakenly attacks me.


29 posted on 04/25/2016 1:19:46 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Still Thinking

You lost that loving feeling, didn’t you?


30 posted on 04/25/2016 1:21:20 PM PDT by SpinnerWebb (Winter is coming)
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To: BenLurkin

I wonder if the pilot is a recent immigrant from “Asia”


31 posted on 04/25/2016 1:32:57 PM PDT by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: BenLurkin

Own goal!


32 posted on 04/25/2016 1:57:38 PM PDT by tinyowl (A equals A)
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To: 21twelve

Could be worse, could have been a school shooting.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26557-2004Nov4.html


33 posted on 04/25/2016 2:46:46 PM PDT by Fraxinus (My opinion, worth what you paid.)
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To: Fraxinus

I did some work in the infield of a runway down in Maryland. Two A-10’s would fly out of there for training. I was a little too close to the asphalt of an unused taxiway one time and a guy came out and told me not to be so close in the morning.

“Well, they don’t use it as a taxiway - but you see that marker way down there? Every morning they check their sights on that marker. Not that it’s ever happened, but it would mess up your day if their gun went off the one day you were here.”

The second (and last) day I was out at the site I was standing on top of the work van taking some overview photos of the site. The two A-10’s came in for a landing. But came over me at VERY low altitude before circling around and landing on another runway.

I just grinned as they were coming in and thinking to myself “Well - I’m dead!”


34 posted on 04/25/2016 2:57:27 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: DannyTN

The SUVs of the sky.


35 posted on 04/25/2016 3:07:12 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Boogieman

And if there are people on the island, it’s not uninhabited


36 posted on 04/25/2016 6:52:29 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy ("History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce." - Karl Marx)
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To: Oztrich Boy

Indeed!

Now I’m beginning to doubt whether it was even an island... probably a peninsula trying to slip by without us noticing!


37 posted on 04/25/2016 7:01:29 PM PDT by Boogieman
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