At least 5 killed after air dropped aid falls on them in Gaza | CNN
t least five people were killed, and 10 others injured on Friday, when aid packages air dropped from the sky fell on them in the Al Shati camp west of Gaza City, according to a journalist on the scene who witnessed the incident.
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Aren't airdrops parachuted in? I'm not trying to be a dick, but people didn't have time to move out of the way?
The chutes didn't open. There's video. Having a heavy pallet crash through your roof can cause death. We're talking maybe half the weight of a car, traveling at faster than freeway speed.
Even the ones where the chutes deployed have to be still carrying a decent amount of energy given the speed they appeared to be dropping in the video I saw. Given the number of folks running to try to get to them I'm surprised MORE weren't injured.
So, an update seems to indicate that the parachute failed. So...I was just a dick since I didn't consider that possibility.
It's why I have trouble believing this even happened. It's absurd.
In a video obtained by CNN on Friday, an airdrop goes wrong when the parachute on a pallet malfunctions. The pallet and its contents can be seen falling at a high speed towards a residential building near the Fairoz Towers in western Gaza.
If it's what I imagine to be massive pallets of equipment, people could wrongly be under the impression that these drops will float down like feathers when in reality they're like a low-speed automobile collision. So as they approach the ground their speed and drift may catch some off-guard.
Additionally as the article points out, some drops have broken apart or their parachutes do not deploy.