A Black Hawk Helicopter Dropped an Ammo Box Through a School Roof

By Tactical-Life

We swear we’re not making this up—a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter dropped a box of ammunition through the roof of a school building in El Paso, Texas last week.

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El Paso Times reports that classes had let out for the day at Parkland Elementary School when the ammo box fell and landed in a classroom at around 3:45 p.m. on Thursday, causing a power outage in one area of the building.

“No students or staff were ever in danger,” school district officials stressed in a news release.

The Black Hawk helicopter, which is assigned to Fort Bliss, was on a training mission when the ammunition fell from about 1,000 feet, Fort Bliss spokesman Mike Brantley confirmed, adding that Fort Bliss officials retrieved the ammo within 30 minutes.

Fort Bliss officials said they would “reassess current flight patterns to ensure that incidents similar to this will not occur …Read the Rest

Source:: Tactical Life