Norwegian fighter jet mistakenly machine-guns control tower

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It is the second time in six years the tower has been fired on in error by F-16 jets – no one was injured either time

The Norwegian F-16 was on a training exercise when it mistakenly opened fire on the control tower with three officers inside. Photograph: Norwegian Air Force/AFP/Getty Images
Agence France-Presse
Sunday 24 April 2016 23.34 EDTLast modified on Monday 25 April 201609.21 EDT

A Norwegian fighter jet on a training exercise jet mistakenly machine-gunned a control tower with three officers inside, who survived unhurt, the military said Sunday.


Two F-16s were taking part in a mock attack on the uninhabited island of Tarva off Norway’s west coast when one of them opened fire with its M61 Vulcan cannon, which is capable of firing up to 100 rounds a second.
“An investigation has been opened,” Captain Brynjar Stordal, a spokesman for the Norwegian military, told AFP.
A hail of bullets hit the tower in the incident, which happened on the night of April 12, but the officers inside were not injured.
In a similar incident in 2009, F-16s fired in error on the same tower, with at least one round piercing the structure, but again no-one was injured.
It’s not the only incident of an F-16 firing on the wrong target. In 2014 a Dutch fighter jet accidentally strafed the control tower at the Vliehors range on the island of Vlieland, north of Amsterdam, during a training flight.
During the incident, several live rounds from the aircraft’s 20mm cannon caused minor damage to the tower. Two controllers who were inside the building at the moment of the attack were not injured.

Marathadi-Saamiyaar wrote:

garam_kuta wrote:Norwegian fighter jet mistakenly machine-guns control tower

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It is the second time in six years the tower has been fired on in error by F-16 jets – no one was injured either time

The Norwegian F-16 was on a training exercise when it mistakenly opened fire on the control tower with three officers inside. Photograph: Norwegian Air Force/AFP/Getty Images
Agence France-Presse
Sunday 24 April 2016 23.34 EDTLast modified on Monday 25 April 201609.21 EDT

A Norwegian fighter jet on a training exercise jet mistakenly machine-gunned a control tower with three officers inside, who survived unhurt, the military said Sunday.


Two F-16s were taking part in a mock attack on the uninhabited island of Tarva off Norway’s west coast when one of them opened fire with its M61 Vulcan cannon, which is capable of firing up to 100 rounds a second.
“An investigation has been opened,” Captain Brynjar Stordal, a spokesman for the Norwegian military, told AFP.
A hail of bullets hit the tower in the incident, which happened on the night of April 12, but the officers inside were not injured.
In a similar incident in 2009, F-16s fired in error on the same tower, with at least one round piercing the structure, but again no-one was injured.
It’s not the only incident of an F-16 firing on the wrong target. In 2014 a Dutch fighter jet accidentally strafed the control tower at the Vliehors range on the island of Vlieland, north of Amsterdam, during a training flight.
During the incident, several live rounds from the aircraft’s 20mm cannon caused minor damage to the tower. Two controllers who were inside the building at the moment of the attack were not injured.

The F-16 should have slammed the tower teaching a good lesson not to interfere or mess with the fighter jets.

reminds me of the ship and the lighthouse joke.

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garam_kuta wrote:Norwegian fighter jet mistakenly machine-guns control tower

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It is the second time in six years the tower has been fired on in error by F-16 jets – no one was injured either time

The Norwegian F-16 was on a training exercise when it mistakenly opened fire on the control tower with three officers inside. Photograph: Norwegian Air Force/AFP/Getty Images
Agence France-Presse
Sunday 24 April 2016 23.34 EDTLast modified on Monday 25 April 201609.21 EDT

A Norwegian fighter jet on a training exercise jet mistakenly machine-gunned a control tower with three officers inside, who survived unhurt, the military said Sunday.


Two F-16s were taking part in a mock attack on the uninhabited island of Tarva off Norway’s west coast when one of them opened fire with its M61 Vulcan cannon, which is capable of firing up to 100 rounds a second.
“An investigation has been opened,” Captain Brynjar Stordal, a spokesman for the Norwegian military, told AFP.
A hail of bullets hit the tower in the incident, which happened on the night of April 12, but the officers inside were not injured.
In a similar incident in 2009, F-16s fired in error on the same tower, with at least one round piercing the structure, but again no-one was injured.
It’s not the only incident of an F-16 firing on the wrong target. In 2014 a Dutch fighter jet accidentally strafed the control tower at the Vliehors range on the island of Vlieland, north of Amsterdam, during a training flight.
During the incident, several live rounds from the aircraft’s 20mm cannon caused minor damage to the tower. Two controllers who were inside the building at the moment of the attack were not injured.

The F-16 should have slammed the tower teaching a good lesson not to interfere or mess with the fighter jets.

reminds me of the ship and the lighthouse joke.

Yeah. Just imagine the F-16 as a jihadi being pieceful towards kafirs......