Wedding Party Shoots Down Plane

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BELGRADE (Reuters) - A two-seater sports plane on an unauthorized joyride was apparently shot down by mistake when it flew over a Serbian wedding party where guests were firing guns into the air, local media reported Sunday.
Two men were reported to have sustained serious injuries when their aircraft burst into flames and crashed near Kraljevo, central Serbia.
"I heard shots from a wedding party which was very close to the crash site. Then I saw the plane in flames. It was shot in the left wing," witness Zoran Vukadinovic told reporters.
"A few moments later, while attempting a crash landing, it was caught in overhead power cables," he said.
Local media said neither of the men held a pilot's license.
Firing guns into the air at weddings and other celebrations is common in Serbia.



(Remember the story of this type of wedding 'celebration' in India last year? A stray 'celebratory' bullet went through the groom's head and killed him.)

 

[DocRafiki]

How anyone could think that's safe is beyond me. I didn't hear about the one in India.

Oh that reminds me of the year I was down by the Moonwalk in New Orleans for New Year's Eve and this woman across the way in the crowd died. I later saw on the news that she was hit by a falling bullet. They really cracked down on the "celebratory" shooting for a while after that, or at least that's how the news made it look.