CV wrote:

John Harlow wrote:

My conviction of the miniscule damage to be caused by a sky
marshall or pilot popping off a few caps at a terrorists has been
reinforced.


Some years ago an airliner landed here in Richmond after having been
shot by
someone on the ground. It was a completely coincidental thing where
someone
shot into the sky and just happened to hit an airliner. The news report
showed the bullet hole; other than that the plane was fine.


May or may not be relevant, depending on the following
two questions:

1. Did the bullet penetrate into any pressurized part
of the aircraft ?
2. What height (and speed) was it flying at when it was hit ?

hmmm, just thought of a third factor: The hole left by a bullet
entering the airframe may be aerodynamically very different
from one that went from the inside out.
CV