Strange stuff does happen.
This was posted by A4s back in 2005 (Skyhawk tribute thread):
"THE FOLLOWING WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE SKYHAWK.ORG website:
On May 1, 1967, VA-76 "Spirit" A-4C Skyhawk, BuNo. 148609, side number NP-685, from USS Bon Homme Richard CVA-31, was piloted by Lieutenant Commander Ted "T.R." Swartz. "T.R." was about to make an air-to-ground Zuni and 20mm strafing attack on North Vietnam's Kep Airfield, north of Hanoi.
As "T.R." began his roll-in to attack the target, his wingman alerted him to a pair of enemy MiG-17 Fresco fighters, moving in to attack at Swartz's 6 o'clock position. The intrepid Skyhawk driver wanted nothing to do with THAT game, so he aborted his target run and pulled his aircraft into a defensive high "G" barrel roll. The unexpected maneuver caused the attacking MiGs to over-shoot and Swartz slid into their 6 o'clock position. Swartz fired a salvo of ZUNI rockets was amazed to see one of his ZUNIs hit one of the MiGs, which disintegrated in a ball of flame.
SCRATCH ONE MIG!
T.R. Swartz retured safely to Bon Homme Richard that day, his action marking the first, and only, shoot-down of an enemy aircraft by a Skyhawk during the Vietnam War."
Steve