Botched Airdrop Sends Humvees Plummeting To Their Doom

Thanks. My unit at Fort Carson loaned out a Humvee to the SF unit there and I was told to get it. It was returned via sling load but like the video it disintegrated when the sling broke and an investigation took place afterwards. I did get a new truck out of it!

Thanks for the post!

The rigging work is done by the unit that owns the equipment under the supervision of a rigger.

So PFC Slapdash and 19 of his fellow Soldiers were tasked to go to the rigger building with the units vehicles and loads to be dropped, they are the ones that do the physical work, placed the loads on the pallets, cut the fiberboard honeycomb, tied everything down, placed the rigging on the load.. all under the direct (if done right) supervision of a rigger, then the load was checked by another rigger and signed off on.
After that a load master checked the load ..but is a check of key rigging components, and then the ingratiation into the drop system on the AC.. the load master is not responsible for every aspect of the load rigging as there is much the LM can not see to inspect...thats why there is a certified rigger in charge of the work detail, and another that double checks the load rigging steps along the way. Its been a few years since I was on a heavy drop rigging detail.. but I see to remember having to stop the processes about three times as a key step and rigging had to be checked and signed off by a second rigger before we could continue.
After that check more stuff is added making the last key component un inspect-able..as its no longer accessible.

A single person charged for three different loads on three different AC for three loads, would likely be a rigger that failed to do the job as required (supervise, inspect, correct), or some intentional shenanigans by one of the unit members that was on the heavy drop detail, wanting to see some stuff crash and burn.