Gunfire strikes Southwest plane on tarmac of Dallas airport, officials say
Source: CBS News
There were no injuries after a Southwest flight carrying passengers was struck by gunfire on the tarmac of Dallas Love Field Friday night, authorities said.
Southwest Airlines Flight 2494 was preparing for departure to Indianapolis when "a bullet apparently struck the right side of the aircraft under the flight deck," a Southwest spokesperson told CBS News in a statement.
The airline said no one was hurt. A spokesperson for Dallas Love Field said in an email that the aircraft returned to its gate after sustaining damage from a "security incident" and the passengers deplaned. The runway was also temporarily closed, but has since reopened.
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In its own statement provided to CBS News, the Federal Aviation Administration said that the Boeing 737-800 "was reportedly struck by gunfire near the cockpit."
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gunfire-strikes-southwest-plane-tarmac-dallas-love-field/
I'm at a loss for words. Our country is fucked in so many ways.
Just a few days ago the FAA issued a 30 ban on US airlines flying to Haiti because of gunfire striking planes, how long before important foreign airlines are banned from flying to the US?
Skittles
(160,331 posts)OH and Haiti gets a lot of guns from gun humping America.
FakeNoose
(36,019 posts)Submariner
(12,719 posts)celebrating there annual holiday early, because they get excited relishing the anniversary of the assassination of President John F Kennedy.
Montauk6
(8,768 posts)"HEY LOSERS!!! HE'S GOTTA GET TO DEALEY PLAZA FIRST, YA DINGBATS...."
Old Crank
(4,914 posts)Texas has been in GOP control for 30 years. Everything that happens is the GOP's fault.
Lonestarblue
(11,983 posts)They have shoved every gun safety regulation into the trash. Besides theyre all too busy figuring out their next steps for further controlling womens lives and denying them healthcare by setting up a police state to monitor them.
Skittles
(160,331 posts)nothing will ever be done about guns
C0RI0LANUS
(1,878 posts)Below is a 2022 video of woman opening fire inside this airport:
https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2022/07/27/dallas-love-field-airport-shooting-surveillance-video-new-day-sot-vpx.cnn
In 2021, Texas reported 1,006,555 firearms licenses and 45.7% of adults say they live in homes with guns.
In an average year, 4,122 people die and 7,726 are wounded by guns in Texas.
This equates to 11 people killed and 21 wounded every day in the Lone Star State.
Luckily no one was killed or wounded in this idiotic incident.
Sources:
https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/gun-ownership-rates-by-state/52/
https://everystat.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Gun-Violence-in-Texas-2024-05.pdf
MrWowWow
(431 posts)Was this just an anomaly, the continuation of a pattern, or the beginning of a new one?
DFW
(56,897 posts)The danger to their citizens is just too great, doncha know......
lostnfound
(16,717 posts)Aviation is surprisingly critical to the US economy overall.
travelingthrulife
(959 posts)I am really starting to hate this country.
yaesu
(8,360 posts)chaos creates chaos and now that the rule of law no longer exists it will be a wild west free for all. Major crime statistics will be going through the roof.
hadEnuf
(2,796 posts)The Trump regime will make sure of that.
We need our own media.
purr-rat beauty
(600 posts)Don't worry and don't mention any of this shit
Gotta protect the guns!
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(116,515 posts)Yeehaw!!!!! Nothing like a good old shoot 'em up!
chouchou
(1,432 posts)"I wonder if someone was trying to actually hit the flight deck" "I say that, because...some people who are not familiar with rifles, may not understand that when you aim a rifle at a target..(horizontally)...the bullet drops the same as if it dropped it out of your hand.
If a person was 3000-5000 feet..that might be the distance that the bullet hit under the flight deck and NOT THE PILOTS> Geez..
gay texan
(2,907 posts)Lovely neighborhood there
Blue_Tires
(56,752 posts)SpankMe
(3,318 posts)Until it is, shooting at aircraft is treated as especially serious by the feds.
slightlv
(4,445 posts)*choosing* not to come to America, and to do as little business as possible with us. Like tourism, which I figure is going to be taking a real hit by the coming summer. The U.S. has proven itself to be a lawless, violent country. Some foreign countries may actually issue travel warnings and alerts on the U.S., much like we do on foreign countries where violence is endemic. trumps election is going to hurt this country in more ways than we ever could have originally imagined.