Fri Nov 14, 2003 9:57 am
Wedding guests shoot down small plane
Wedding guests shooting off celebratory ammunition rounds in central Serbia have brought down a small aircraft.
The plane's pilot and a passenger have been seriously injured after their single-engine Utva-75 plane crashed into a high-voltage power line in the village of Ratina, 100 miles west of Belgrade.
"Shortly before the crash I saw the plane flying at a very low altitude over a wedding party when guests started firing their handguns and other weapons," witness Zoran Vukadinovic said.
The left wing of the aircraft subsequently caught fire, and the plane crashed, he said.
Shootings and fatalities are frequent at Serbian weddings because of the centuries-long tradition of blasting away with firearms in celebration. It is the first known reported case, however, of an aircraft being brought down by trigger-happy partygoers.
Police have confirmed the plane crash but have refused to discuss its cause.
The pilot was unlicensed and the flight was unauthorised
Men are from mars, women from somewhere else
The plane's pilot and a passenger have been seriously injured after their single-engine Utva-75 plane crashed into a high-voltage power line in the village of Ratina, 100 miles west of Belgrade.
"Shortly before the crash I saw the plane flying at a very low altitude over a wedding party when guests started firing their handguns and other weapons," witness Zoran Vukadinovic said.
The left wing of the aircraft subsequently caught fire, and the plane crashed, he said.
Shootings and fatalities are frequent at Serbian weddings because of the centuries-long tradition of blasting away with firearms in celebration. It is the first known reported case, however, of an aircraft being brought down by trigger-happy partygoers.
Police have confirmed the plane crash but have refused to discuss its cause.
The pilot was unlicensed and the flight was unauthorised
Men are from mars, women from somewhere else
(if i ever get married, i wanna have handgun on hand, not only for the celebration, but the merit it has later in marriage hehe) where are leonhart and chetnik to read this. Anyway, sounds kinda funny...... shooting down a plane.
