The article is indeed elderly and is the standard article that "mate in the paras" sends to his tame journo at the DT prior to any major defence spending announcement (in this case SDSR). You could pretty much set your watch by the appearance of these "mutter mutter" army furious, parachuting, all the RAFs fault, everything awful Telegraph articles. These were best read on a Friday afternoon in the PTS crewroom whilst waiting to be told that the army had cancelled the rest of the day's lifts so that everyone could get home for the weekend instead
The drop in question wasn't anything particularly "SF'y" - just a standard night LLP drop where the Nav either input the wrong IP coordinates or miscalculated the red light time.
The army kill plenty of their troops in training accidents so there was no reason to go sobbing to the papers about this incident other than to generate the usual "save the paras" noise that gets the man on the Clapham omnibus animated prior to looming defence cuts.