Joint Base Lewis-McChord’s Capt. Jared Foley and his crew in a C-17 Globemaster III were ready to turn back home after a paratrooper landed outside of a planned drop zone on a July 2011 training exercise.
The National Guard parachutist jumped from the plane’s fifth pass over a Montana landing zone, and the error caused the crew to cancel a planned sixth and seventh run.
Read more here: http://blog.thenewstribune.com/military/2012/12/12/jblm-trial-update-army-officer-on-ground-encouraged-airdrop-that-caused-jumpers-death/
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