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lol hope they died!
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Well, he DID get the tank out 😅
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shoulda studied better.
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people die??
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AS PER USUAL, TOTAL CAMERA PERSON FAIL AT THE MOMENT OF TRUTH....
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retarded american pilot
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fuck
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Mother Russia > These Clowns
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but the tank drop was succesful ! the title is misleading.
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I was at the scene that day on duty as a staff officer of XVIII Airborne Corps HQ. There were no US soldiers aboard the aircraft, only USAF crew of pilot, copilot, engineer, navigator, loadmaster and assistant loadmaster. As part of my duties I became very involved in the report of the investigation. The two loadmasters were killed at first impact of the plane when it pancaked. They stand during the LAPES maneuver (Low Altitude Parachute Extraction System) and when the plane pancaked, they were driven to the floor so violently that they died of massive blunt-force trauma.
The pilot attempted to regain flight by going to full throttle, but the nose gear was buried almost to the fuselage and the empennage (tail assembly) was severed except for floorboard extensions so the plane could not have flown again anyway. The plane ran into a wooded ravine where it blew up. It ran over an Army HMMWV enroute, killing one soldier. The copilot and the engineer survived the crash and explosion, but were very badly burned. The pilot and navigator were killed.
My friend, Major Baxter Ennis, was with me. Like many of the other soldiers present, we ran into the flames because in the military you never abandon your comrades. There was fire and smoke everywhere, not only from the burning jet fuel; the forest was on fire, too. The heat was extremely intense. We finally left, having accomplished nothing.
The pilot’s name was Captain Garry Bardo, Junior.
The navigator’s name was First Lieutenant John B. Keiser, III.
The loadmaster’s name was Technical Sergeant Timothy J. Matar.
The assistant loadmaster’s name was Airman First Class Albert G. Dunse.
The soldier’s name was Staff Sergeant Douglas Hunter.
There was a large crowd of civilians because this exercise was actually a rehearsal for the main even the next day. There were about 5,000 local dignitaries, civic leaders and townspeople invited to watch, as had been done for many years. There were many more events to follow at multiple sites. Because of the crash the rest of the airdrops were called off but all the other exercises continued. I remained on duty at the crash scene until mid-afternoon then returned to the headquarters.
The next day's exercise went off without a hitch, thankfully. As you may imagine, Ft Bragg got buried in media coverage and every network sent full-size satellite trucks to cover the airdrops and other exercises the next day.
BTW, the vehicle extracted from the plane was not a tank. It was an M551 Sheridan Armored Reconnaissance Vehicle, lightweight and lightly armored. US Airborne units do not have tanks.
The report concluded that the flight profile was actually well within the C-130's envelope and that the pilot lined up on the incorrect corner marker (used to define the ends and sides of the field landing strip) and then tried to align with the correct one. But he apparently over-corrected and so hit the ground. -
R.I.P flight crew. Those tankers got lucky.
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But the tank was OK!
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Fantastic view of that man's elbow.
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People died during that screw up. The plane ended up in the trees at the end of the DZ/LZ.
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Well the videos title is not very precisely: the tank was dropped correctly.
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Lol
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Tanks are pushed out off the planes flying very low , but this guy came in to fast and hit the runway..
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Now we're dropping tanks from the sky , Murcia
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Drogue parachute from the cargo (tank) slowed the plane too much due to the friction between the plane ramp and the tank pallet being very high.
When he threw on full power to pull out, level off and climb, he didn't have it due to the tank not leaving rear of the plane fast enough. Bounced and died. Sad.
Only americans so no great loss to planet Earth.
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eh? why was the tank chasing the plane???