Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Aerial delivery goes wrong


It seems the USAF decided to air-drop construction materials to FOB Todd, Bala Morghab, Afghanistan. As the video demonstrates, this might not have been the best method of delivery . . .

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Oops!

Peter

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Coulda been worse - could have been a man burrowing in instead of gear.

Crucis said...

At least it was construction materials rather than a more "breakable" cargo.

Saw a Jeep dropped once with similar results. Used a front-loader to pick up the pieces.

JAFO said...

that's much more common than you want to know about :)

Old NFO said...

Typical Air Force... wrong size chutes...

JAFO said...

Nosir, that there is a chute FAILURE.

Seen a few of 'em. The proper chute is still atop the hole in the ground the load made ;)

Anonymous said...

Some where there is a great video of a front-end loader being extracted at ground level from the rear of a C-130. The drag chute pops loose and so does the machine which goes galavanting across the field for several hundred yards.

joe said...

Not sure if it's a front end loader, but here's one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1izGSMKqskY

The gallivanting vehicle is near 1:15 or so.