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MILITARY INADVERTENTLY PLANE DROPS HUMVEE OVER HARNETT COUNTY NEIGHBORHOOD, OFFICIALS SAY
ABC 11 ^
| 10/24/2018
Posted on 10/24/2018 4:01:56 PM PDT by Gamecock
CAMERON, N.C. (WTVD) -- A C-17 military plane dropped a Humvee prematurely over a neighborhood in Harnett County Wednesday afternoon, Fort Bragg officials confirmed.
No one was injured.
The neighborhood is in the town of Cameron. This incident occurred around 1 p.m. during a training exercise.
"A load of some kind was released early and we're looking into how it happened," said Michael Novogradac, a spokesman for the USArmy's Operational Test Command.
The C-17 aircraft carries supplies and equipment into war zones and, on Wednesday, the special operations team was practicing that type of scenario when the accident happened.
Only two items were aboard the aircraft, which was flying at about 1,500 feet in altitude -- the Humvee and a new heavy drop platform.
About a mile from the drop zone at Fort Bragg, the platform went out the back of the C-17.
"Everything went as planned except for the early release," said Fort Bragg spokesperson Tom McCollum.
The three parachutes attached to the Humvee deployed properly.
The C-17 Globemaster III was from the 437th airlift wing based at Joint Base Charleston
The incident is under investigation.
TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: oops; prematureejaculation
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posted on
10/24/2018 4:01:56 PM PDT
by
Gamecock
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posted on
10/24/2018 4:02:12 PM PDT
by
Gamecock
(In church today, we so often find we meet only the same old world, not Christ and His Kingdom. AS)
To: Jet Jaguar
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posted on
10/24/2018 4:02:40 PM PDT
by
Gamecock
(In church today, we so often find we meet only the same old world, not Christ and His Kingdom. AS)
To: Gamecock
“Hey Marge, look out the window, it’s raining Humvees.”
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posted on
10/24/2018 4:03:21 PM PDT
by
C210N
(Republicans sign check fronts; 'Rats sign check backs.)
To: Gamecock
I hope they are practicing for the interdiction of the southern border invasion.
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posted on
10/24/2018 4:04:22 PM PDT
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
To: Gamecock; markomalley; DYngbld; TADSLOS; xsrdx; big'ol_freeper; Mark17; mikefive; JDoutrider; ...
To: Gamecock
Right now there is a loadmaster with a migraine headache who is hurriedly updating his resume.
CC
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posted on
10/24/2018 4:06:09 PM PDT
by
Celtic Conservative
(Do you know what really burns my ass? A flame about 3 feet high.)
To: Gamecock
Flew C124 troop/trash carriers during Vietnam era. We dropped troops and cargo all the time. On occasion some of it actually hit the intended targets. Someone’s promotion went out the back door with that Humvee.
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posted on
10/24/2018 4:06:26 PM PDT
by
Don Corleone
(Nothing makes the delusional more furious than truth.)
To: Gamecock
How can that occur inadvertently?
To: Jet Jaguar
i hate it when that happens...
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posted on
10/24/2018 4:07:30 PM PDT
by
Chode
( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
To: Gamecock
Parachute attached, I believe.
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posted on
10/24/2018 4:08:59 PM PDT
by
Pearls Before Swine
("It's always a party when you're eating the seed corn.")
To: Gamecock
“Green Light!”
“Load Clear”
Should have used a Herk!
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posted on
10/24/2018 4:10:27 PM PDT
by
Billyv
( Ephesians 6:11 for we battle not against flesh and blood...Pray for our leaders and nation!)
To: Gamecock
I hate it when that happens.
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posted on
10/24/2018 4:10:35 PM PDT
by
Drango
(A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
To: Gamecock
Do that in Chicago and it would have been stripped before it could be retrieved
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posted on
10/24/2018 4:11:18 PM PDT
by
TexasTransplant
(Damn the Torpedoes! Full Speed Ahead!)
To: Gamecock
Is Finders Keeper in play here?
To: Lurkinanloomin
I hope they are practicing for the interdiction of the southern border invasion.
That was my first thought too.
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posted on
10/24/2018 4:13:09 PM PDT
by
CARTOUCHE
(Tune in for Election 2018 coverage...Wall to wall weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth.)
To: Gamecock
oh well, what are our taxes for anyways?
/s
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posted on
10/24/2018 4:13:27 PM PDT
by
faithhopecharity
("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
To: Gamecock
I would say “free humvee”, but then as A dyed in the wool 1966 FJ40 owner I would then teafully have to confess to my mother that I am a faaag
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posted on
10/24/2018 4:18:25 PM PDT
by
dsrtsage
(For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
To: Gamecock
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