Artillery gun comes loose and hits taxi in Nanaimo

[SeaKingTacco]

When was this?

:cheers:

Summer of 90 or 91, IIRC.

 

[Good2Golf]

‘91 for sure.  I was slinging heavy stuff, but the Huey guys told us about the whole thing. I had heard that the CHECK FIRE was actually called initially because the pathfinder LOH had stuck its nose across the safety line at the North end of ANZIO, not because there were rounds dripping into the LZ.

 

[Petard]

‘91 for sure.  I was slinging heavy stuff, but the Huey guys told us about the whole thing. I had heard that the CHECK FIRE was actually called initially because the pathfinder LOH had stuck its nose across the safety line at the North end of ANZIO, not because there were rounds dripping into the LZ.

I was with E Bty (para) at the time, and much of what's being said above sounds familiar, including the early call of the Tgt to be unsafe for reason G2G mentions
Someone posted a video of this incident on one of the (closed) Canadian artillery groups on Facebook. In the video you can hear the radio transmissions and it does sound like two C/S are stepping on each other trying to call Check Fire

Incidentally, the officer in the CP that caused that disaster left the Reg Force shortly after it happened, but went on to serve in the very same unit that was involved in this latest 5 Fd embarrassment (playing punch buggy with a C3), don't think he was involved with that one though. He was, however, the cause of yet more butt hurt not too long ago, when someone got him involved with the transition of C1 howitzers to C3's for avalanche control.

 

[SeaKingTacco]

I ran into that person on a BC ferry, recently.

Small world.