I remember another one from Alice in 1989, when the AR3D went pearshaped, longterm... the decision was taken to bring up the T259 from MPA, with one of the Eric's bringing up the control cabin and a chinook bringing up the genny and another box, cant quite remember what it was. Anyway.
the loads under the Chinook were, from what we understand, strung on different length strops. Which meant one of the loads was bashing against one of the strops during the transit flight from MPA to Alice and the strop either failed or got worn through.
Suffice it to say, the Chinook arrived at Alice minus the genny, which we were led to believe was dropped halfway across the sound with an almighty splosh.
I also remember another one from Kent in 1994. There was what appeared to be the business end/bucket of a big old dumper truck, which had been left next to a couple of rather huge boulders. Over a period of time and from what I understand following a tech refresh of the catwalk from accomodation to Ops, this dumper filled up with all manner of crap. I dont know what it weighed, but it was seriously heavy. One day, 78 came to pick it up with the wokka; wokka is duly attached to the load and strains like buggery to get the thing off the deck. As he does so and we manage to get clear air between the ground and the dumper, a godalmighty lateral gust of wind comes along and pushes the dumper and the attached wokka towards the rather huge boulders. Next thing, we all heard an almighty BANG all over the site as the wokka decided that it would be in the interests of flight safety to put the load back down again, which sent a lot of usin the direction of the accomodation to see the Chinook landing on Kent's helipad for a change of crew underwear...