I've had two things happen that were mentioned but couldn't remember until I saw those.
I shot the tail off pony and he started to 'leaf' and as I was passing by him, he lets loose his guns and gets nice kill shot on my pilot. I was

This happened tonight - It was slow fights again so I decided to up LA7 and head over to stir up some trouble. I saw box of KI67s (or 61s, always get those two mixed up) upping so I figured okay, easy kills. I'm coming in at 10K as I usually do if I am in pony. Well I dove in, cut throttle, blew wing off one and realized I wasn't going to make it time - nothing like hitting the ground at 600+ MPH to ruin your night.
