Crop dusting plane shot while flying over Lawrence County

[Graham2001]

Lisa Kingsley gets chills when she counts the bullet holes in her friend's plane.

"Here's one on the wing and then another in the back," Kingsley said. "It's scary."

http://www.ky3.com/news/local/crop-dusting-plane-shot-while-flying-over-lawrence-county/21048998_30087940

[brianw999]

Mount a .50cal machine gun under the wing and shoot back at the bastards !

[elaw]

Or maybe take an "old school" approach:

[guamainiac]

Looks more like buckshot. I never hunted geese but high flying birds like that used to require long barrel large bore, almost cannon like guns.

[3WE]

My first thought was weed killers vs. farmers of not-so-legal crops.

But maybe they were just messing up the duck hunting.

[brianw999]

You're probably right 'maniac. The ragged entry and denting of the paint around the impact sites is suggestive of a relatively low velocity round ball such as SSG shot from a 10 or 12 gauge magnum shotgun. A higher velocity automatic rifle or machine gun would leave more defined holes. Whatever happens, the FBI need to get their act together on this one.

[guamainiac]

It would be terribly hard to shoot "12 bullet holes" in a plane going low and fast in such a tight pattern.

A reporter running through the straw, but never a plane.