"As God as my witness, I thought
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.
Guessin’ finders/keepers won’t be in play here?
Cool. Where do I send my coordinates for the next Humvee drop?
“Parachute attached, I believe.”
She’d your beliefs and read the article.
“GOSH DANG VERN, YOU SEE THAT!?
Finders keepers?
"The patient is recovering as planned except for his early demise," said Grady Hospital spokesperson Tom McCollum.
“Everything went as planned except for the early release.”
Don’t you just hate it when that happens?
Possibly testing an auto-release system that went wrong.
We had similar incidents with some fighters when “consent” for release activated and glitches released the weapon early. Good thing over Nellis airspace in the desert.
Of it could be the loadmaster inadvertently pressed the release.
wasn’t this a scene in the A-TEAM the movie? Wait, that was a tank..
Shouldn’t they have been aiming for the US - Mexico border?
Off by 5 miles in that report, not 1 mile.
We did it all the time in Yuma.
Yuma Proving Ground is a premier place for testing parachutes and dropping super-heavy loads out of planes.
This event shows why. The testing is done many mile from even a highway, out in the desert. Lots of safety area.
Even then, sometimes a load is lost. We had a picture of a truck that was destroyed by a load where the parachutes did not deploy properly.
You need lots of upper air meteorological data for testing parachutes.
That is what I and my team provided.
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Everything went well with the exercise except the whole point of the exercise...
A couple lines up from the bottom, it states that “ the three parachutes attached to the Humvee deployed prorperly.”
What are you saying I missed?
I’ve got acreage
Anytime fellas
I’ll even chalk mark if that helps
I’d like A few pallets of plastique with cord and caps
A few pallets of 7.62 battle rifles
And some surface air
And kinetic misses like a javelin or too
Some triple A
A nice GE GATLIN gun or two
And a Neutron bomb
I can send long lat on request for inadvertent mistake drops
One would guess the brigadier in charge said some naughty words down the chain of command.
When my brother was in the Marine reserves (Vietnam era) they had a demonstration where they were supposed to drop some vehicles from a plane onto a field near the runway. They dropped like 4 transport vehicles and on 3 of them the parachutes fail to deploy. The 4th one landed perfectly at the end of the runway and sat there proudly until a jet came in for a landing and on landing accidentally discharged a missile which promptly took out the remaining vehicle.
A true FUBAR moment in military history.
It's not enough to mail bombs! That was a joke, OK?
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