Posted on 10/25/2018 6:28:59 AM PDT by Red Badger
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.
UPDATE: @FtBraggNC now says it was a C17 that prematurely dropped a humvee during a training exercise. No injuries and no property damage. As with C130’s, the C17 also carries soldiers, supplies and equipment. #abc11 — Morgan Norwood (@MorganABC11) October 24, 2018
The C-17 Globemaster III was from the 437th airlift wing based at Joint Base Charleston
The incident is under investigation.
(Excerpt) Read more at abc11.com ...
There are no coincidences.
They actually paid a guy to say that?
“Everything went as planned except for the early release,”
That’s what I tell my wife
“A C-17 military plane dropped a Humvee prematurely over a neighborhood in Harnett County...”
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OK, so when were they supposed to drop the Humvee over a neighborhood in Harnett County?
I have read that if a package gets delivered to you on your property, you get to keep it for free.
Yep. ;)
Depends on what’s in it..................;^)
Later................much later................................
Some people all the the luck.
All I get dropped on my property from airplanes are the latrine dump, and an occasion spare bolt.
He’s been saving it up.....................
I was a USAF loadmaster with many drops at Bragg/Pope and never missed that bad. And that was before GPS with a navigator using stubby pencil!!
They don’t have ‘spare bolts’ on aircraft...........................
“Everything went as planned except for the early release,”
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LOL
Does your wife call you “E R”
Besides that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?
Somebody’s gonna lose a stripe or two or three, or a bar or leaf......................
Eglin AFB aircraft take off and fly right over my house.
I sure hope they have good loadmasters...............
Red Badger wrote:
OOPS!....................
I believe the proper Military vernacular [for an event such as this] is ‘OOPSIE’!
Well, if they were important, they should have tightened them better.
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