Xercules,
your cunning plan was flawed ! You should have preceded the resupply drop by an insertion of a Health and Safety Team to carry out a full risk assessment to any civilians in the vicinity (servicemen do not count). Once the report had been received and staffed the need for the drop may well have evaporated. However if the drop then went ahead then it must be preceded at least 24 hours in advance by a leaflet drop (in 27 languages) warning those within 100 NM including any hostiles.
After the drop another leaflet sortie needs to be flown advising all and sundry that they are entitled to sue the UK for a wide variety of alleged injuries and misdemenours. Naturally contact details for the increasing horde of UK 'ambulance chasers' would be included.
Then those who sue would need flying back to the UK on specially charterd civil a/c as to use a Hercules would merely add insult to their 'injuries'.
Once here of course they would be accommodated in posh London hotels and given benefits and cosmetic surgery on the NHS.
Actually your real mistake was in not presenting the airdrop as relieving the
system of the need to store the kit being dropped thus saving MOD money.
Any career minded SO woulds have signed without the slightest demur.
Cynical? Moi ?