NC - Military Accidentally Drop Humvee In Backyard (Video)

It was an accident that could have easily been avoided but well, mistakes and miscalculations do happen. A Humvee vehicle was prematurely dropped from an Air Force C-17 into a wooden rural area outside of Fort Bragg, North Carolina around 1 p.m. on Wednesday during testing.

The vehicle landed more than seven miles north of the intended drop zone.

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Lt. Col. Mike Burns tried to downplay what happened. He said: “The key thing here is that there were no injuries or no significant property damage.” He quickly added: “The only damage was to several trees.”

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The incident is now under review and Burns stressed that the Humvee’s parachute did open as intended.

The C-17 flew out of Charleston Air Force Base.

Burns also shared that it is routine practice for Army to test new equipment and procedures to support the aerial delivery and transportation of military equipment.

The Air Force stated, too, that the C-17 happens to be “the most flexible cargo aircraft to enter the airlift force.” It is utilized to transport troops and all types of cargo while they are in the process of performing tactical airlift and to also carry out airdrop missions.

C-17 is capable, too, of transporting litters and ambulatory patients during aeromedical evacuations.

Social media users also give their reactions to the incident, some showing concern, others making light of the incident.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I&#39;ve watched plenty of docs on the C17 Globemaster and a better truer headline would be &quot;Air Force C-17 negligently drops Humvee over North Carolina&quot;. Hope the humvee didn&#39;t land on anyone&#39;s house.</p>&mdash; Legal Affairs Canada (@LawScribes) <a href="https://twitter.com/LawScribes/status/1055204816169897985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 24, 2018</a></blockquote>

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Oops, they are people who still make mistakes. Thank God nobody got hurt…</p>&mdash; Rodney Laing (@rodlaing) <a href="https://twitter.com/rodlaing/status/1055445687045971971?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 25, 2018</a></blockquote>

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">As God is my witness, I thought hunvees could fly</p>&mdash; Mark Vaudrey (@Markvaud4077) <a href="https://twitter.com/Markvaud4077/status/1055254814420983808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 25, 2018</a></blockquote>

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Finders keepers. 🤣🤣🤣🤣</p>&mdash; Rome Bova (@RomeBova) <a href="https://twitter.com/RomeBova/status/1055256709369868288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 25, 2018</a></blockquote>

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Keep training</p>&mdash; americagirl (@americagirl15) <a href="https://twitter.com/americagirl15/status/1055255554568916992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 25, 2018</a></blockquote>

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Source:

http://www.live5news.com/video/2018/10/25/joint-base-charleston-c-accidentally-drops-humvee-north-carolina-town/