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Originally Posted by ipernorris
Are you sure? I'm not mother tongue so I've always associated the verb to making a fighter going boom.
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That's because we normally use missiles to make a fighter go boom, or a fighter goes boom when it hits the ground. You neglect that a pilot can eject, or somehow land a plane riddled with bullet holes.
"Shot down" refers to what happens to the plane/mech, not the pilot. When a pilot is "shot down," that means he loses his plane/mech, not necessarily his life.