Mal Drop,
nicely put. Anyone interested in airdrop could do worse than to look at some of the pics on the Hercules thread of PPRuNe. As regards the people on the DZ causing the drop to be aborted I do not think some of you realise at what speed even under a parachute these loads descend. To give an extreme example the energy absorbing systems on the RAF heavy drop loads could be required to deal with up to 19G ! It would not be the first time a drop has had to be aborted for similar reasons.
The RAF crew had no choice IMHO. You can just imagine the headlines and the pictures 'RAF kill refugees in botched mercy drop'. They seem to be dammed if they do and dammed if they do not whilst attempting a very tricky operation !
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