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Originally Posted by crockett
I couldn't imagine them dropping it right there in plane view. Seems a bit moronic to me. That chopper would never catch that plane though.
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It was mentioned earlier that you could find bales washed up on the beach along Florida's coast.
They usually end up that way when the smaller boat that loaded up from the bigger boat took
too many and had to toss a few overboard to keep from sinking
or they got spooked and just dumped the whole load to keep from getting caught.
It would be very stupid to plan a drop like this but perhaps the plane knew he was in trouble,
called the boat and said he didn't have time to drop way offshore so he was going
to jettison just off the beach so the boat could reach the stuff ASAP and try to save the load.
Still sounds crazy but those guys were and most of the time greed to precedence over sound thinking.
While the helicopter can't run down the plane it's job was to make contact and maintain surveillance
on the plane and boat until something much faster could arrive
