This will certainly be an unusual insurance claim...hope the owner is in "Good Hands" with Allstate!
Sobering photo of an SUV that got lit up by mistake, by an F16 driver near the air-ground gunnery range outside Dugway, Utah.
The 'light paint and body damage' is the result of a quarter second burst by the fighter's 20mm gun, (which fires about 3000 rounds per minute). An estimated 15-20 rounds left the gun… the results are as you see below.
The shots did hit the gas tank, but it didn't explode; the gas just leaked out. The good news is that he only had 508 rounds of Ball Training Ammo and not HEI (high explosive incendiary).
What's even more astonishing is, the SUV was being driven at the time!
The driver and the guy in the right-hand passenger seat escaped withsome light glass injury to the driver, and a dislocated shoulder to the passenger. The passenger who normally sits in the back seat had just moved to another vehicle.
The vehicle was on the military reservation… but a full three miles away from the gunnery range.
The pilot is doubtless busily writing…
'I WILL NOT ENGAGE SOFT CIVILIAN VEHICLES IN NO-FIRE ZONES'…
1,000 times... after which he will be PCS'd to Shemeya AFB, Alaska.