Air Drop accident.....

When I was in the 82nd, Army riggers packed and secured the palletized equipment. I also though USAF crew chiefs did another inspection since they load and drop?

 

Once... happenstance
Twice... coincidence
Thrice... enemy action

Given that they were from three different aircraft it seem inconceivable that it can be anything other than a systemic error... or sabotage.

 

Hopefully it comes out of their paycheck instead of mine...wishful thinking.

 

You (and I) paid for those Hummers.

 

The guys filming it had a good laugh.

 

And no one will be truly held accountable.

 

Not saying it is a good thing, but I've seen more $$$ go up in smoke when the wrong fuse was pulled to initiate a training drill on a submarine. Just ONE of the fire control cards that was wiped out had a replacement cost of something like $250k. Seem to remember the dollar value on the incident report was in the 2.2 million range...

 

Yea. I am glad the taxpayers supplied them with so much amusement.

 

And the same people probably complain when the tax payers wont give them everything they want.

 

Not only that, but the statistics on number of military fatalities during 'training' and in peacetime is also astounding.

 

unfortunate but not uncommonly familiar in accountability: albeit with the Internet now someone's head will roll.

remember tons of times when a sailor would rather chuck a tool overboard rather than walk it back to the locker or even worse things.

Always tried to UCMJ them but not every case was found: guaranteed that there is a small fortune in San Diego bay near any dock

 

Really ? most peacetime deaths are car accidents and bike accidents and a few suicides.

Training deaths are pretty low.

Most deaths innthe military are preventable mishaps but you cant stop em all.

Plenty of humvees are destroyed in training fslling from the sky it just usually doesnt make it on the internet.

 

That's why the Captain always goes down with the ship...

(Duckin)

 

Yeah, but the enjoyment I got out of watching this is worth my share in those trucks any day. I say destroy some more, film it, and let us watch. Better than sending them to stupid places with our kids inside and have them be a part of the destruction.

 

When I was in the service during the big fight, there were many many injuries and deaths from every day non-combatant operations. It was no big deal then and one became inured to it. There was always a screwup in the mix that somehow never got filtered out.

 

I'd bet some careers will be ruined.. Most of that kind of stuff has to have a sign-off and they'll for sure go back and the guy who signed it off will catch hell. Particularly since it's on the national news... Nobody likes bad publicity.

 

When I hear about a rigging failure like this, I always remember that terrible 747 freighter that took off from Baghram 3-4 years ago.

Rigging failed; Armored vehicle cargo broke loose on TO and rolled to the rear of the plane.

Plane stalled, crashed and burned at the end of the runway.

All on a dashcam.

Horrible.

Glad no one was killed/injured in this one.

 

I've said this before on another thread, but that 747 crash almost killed me. I was running perimeter road at BAF and had just rounded the east end if the runway when it crashed on the road. 3-5 minutes earlier takeoff and there is zero doubt I would have been a ground fatality...I dove behind a short T wall when I felt the blast wave. Sad, sad, sad...

 

Just saw this thread. Had to buy the t-shirt. $5 from every purchase was also getting donated to fisher house in the name of the commander of the 173rd. At least one positive came of it lol.


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