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Pilot Shoots At His Own Officers

Posted on 8th May 2016

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Reading this story on The Local (a Norwegian news site) did not make me feel safe.

I am working in Norway at the moment, and now I read that a Norwegian Air Force F-16 has shot up a control tower containing 3 officers, apparently by accident. No-one was injured, but it seems that this is not the first time this control tower has been fired upon by accident during exercises.

I don’t know which is worse:

  • The idea that Norway’s military pilots are so incompetent that they can strafe a control tower by accident,
  • Or the idea that maybe it was no accident, and that he nevertheless missed because he is such a bad shot.

Anyway, I certainly won’t be going to an air-show in Norway.