According to NedRock, the seaplane landed safely in the water and waited for a boat to come pick them up while another pilot readied the plane to taxi away with its guests safely headed for land. We know that Bono and his family were inside the boat when bullets started flying and that the group had to dive for cover. Somehow, the pilot at the helm of Buffett’s plane still managed to take off and escape the gunfire. When the plane reached safety, the pilot found that the plane had taken at least two bullets to the fuselage. Mercifully, all involved were somehow unharmed — aside from, you know, the shock of suddenly being shot at and almost murdered in an island paradise when you’re just trying to get some jerk chicken.

So why the unexpected hail of gunfire? Well, the official story kind of explains. It seems that Jamaican authorities had been alerted to drug smuggling activity in the area (a significant problem in those days) but as to why this particular plane had been fired on, we still don’t know. While NedRock explains that authorities seemed genuinely apologetic about the whole thing, an internal investigation never yielded any answers as to why authorities would randomly fire at a plane.

In the end, says NedRock, the always-chill Buffett pinned the mix-up on “probably karma.” Oh, and he still got some jerk chicken afterward.