A rare incident occurs when a Dutch Air Force fighter hits a shell shot by himself

by NOS

The Dutch National Broadcasting Service (NOS) reported that a Dutch Air Force fighter's plane was hit during training. After the fighters were hit, they were able to make an emergency landing at a nearby air base, and there were no injuries to pilots and ground personnel at the base. A post-incident investigation conducted by the Air Force authorities found that the shot was due to a shell fired by its own gun.

F-16 boven Vlieland geraakt door eigen kogel | NOS
https://nos.nl/artikel/2278988-f-16-boven-vlieland-geraakt-door-eigen-kogel.html

Dutch F-16 flies into its own bullets, scores self-inflicted hits | Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20019/04/dutch-f-16-takes-cannon-fire-from-itself/

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The accident occurred on January 21, 2019, when two fighters were on fire training on the island of Freeland in the Netherlands.

At the time of the accident, two fighters were training, but after one of them fired at the target, at least one shot hit the aircraft. The pilot followed the emergency procedures and landed at nearby Leeuwarden Air Force Base . There was no personal injury from the accident including the pilot, but the fighters suffered considerable damage. The cannonball penetrates the armor of a fighter and damages the engine, and it is said that a part of the cannonball has been found inside the aircraft. The Dutch Air Force fighter that had the accident was an F-16 fighter developed by General Dynamics of the United States, equipped with an M61 Vulcan (M61A1) machine gun.

It is extremely rare that shells fired from a fighter hit the fighter, but it is not without precedent. According to the science and technology news site Ars Technica , in 1956 in the state of New York in the United States, when an F-11 fighter fired down a gun during a test flight while firing a gun, the stalled artillery shell hit an aircraft and crashed. It was said that there was.

The security inspector of the Dutch Ministry of Defense Wim Bargeboss told an interview from the state-run broadcaster in the Netherlands, 'The accident is very serious. It is unclear how the weapons destroyed the aircraft. 'We are planning to continue investigations into what will happen and how we can prevent similar accidents.'