Man Falls From Cargo Plane After Botched Landing Near Fort Bragg In Bizarre Incident

[rebewranger]

Man Falls From Cargo Plane After Botched Landing Near Fort Bragg In Bizarre Incident
Joseph Trevithick - Yesterday 9:25 PM
 
 

The body of a 27-year-old man, the identity of which has not been made public, has been recovered in North Carolina's Wake County. This individual matches the description of someone who appears to either have fallen or jumped from a CASA C-212 twin-engine turboprop light cargo aircraft before it made an emergency landing at Raleigh-Durham International Airport.
 
The CASA C-212, which carries the civil registration number N497CA, attempted to land on Raleigh-Durham's Runway 5R-23L at approximately 2:40 PM local time, according to WTVD-TV, a local ABC television affiliate. Publicly available recordings of exchanges with air traffic controllers in the area, which you can listen to here, confirm that two individuals were initially on board. The crew can be heard explaining that the plane, which was using the callsign Shady 02 at the time, lost its right main landing gear wheel after what they described as a "hard landing" at Raeford West Airport outside of the city of Raeford to the southwest. They had managed to get airborne again afterward.

 
After the subsequent emergency landing at Raleigh-Durham, N497CA's pilot was transported to Duke Hospital with minor injuries. The accident is now under investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/man-falls-from-cargo-plane-after-botched-landing-near-fort-bragg-in-bizarre-incident/ar-AA1078BW?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=ab199c2f8e804b969e7f5efcee2396f1

[sneakypete]

I have never heard of this airplane,so it's after my time.

I have also NEVER heard of a USAF or USA cargo plane that didn't have a pilot,a co-pilot,and a load master to handle the cargo and any cargo or paratrooper drops by lowering and raising the cargo door.

They are also responsible for making sure any cargo is securely lashed to the floor so it won't move around during flights or landings,and supervising the unloading of any cargo.

All this is WHY they are called "cargo planes".


Soooo,WTH was the loadmaster?

[Smokin Joe]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CASA_C-212_Aviocar



Yeah it has a rear ramp, so where was the loadmaster?