An excellent post, FED. Thanks for that.
Takes me back to the days when a few hundred pounds of materiel landed a couple of feet from me due to the chute not properly deploying over the DZ.
Put the wind up me , it did.
Then there was the day when an enthusiastic but clueless youngster filled the Bell 47's tanks with avtur.
Nobody got hurt but there were a few anxious moments, there.
Anyway, we're still around to talk about it.
Stay cool.