Why RAF Pilots Had To Land Differently In Bosnia (1992 Documentary) | Forces TV

"The idea is to stay clear of ground fire". On the 2nd July 1992, RAF Hercules transports began flying humanitarian aid into Sarajevo as part of Operation Cheshire, a UN-sponsored mission. At the time, Forces News travelled in one of the RAF's mercy flights into the capital, Sarajevo.
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[@DASSTADT]

THANK YOU FOR THE CONSTANT HELP AND FRIENDSHIP YOU GIVE US!!! 🇧🇦🇬🇧

[@neilharrison9144]

Hi I went back for the first time in 31 years a couple of weeks ago ,beautiful country. Meet people we saved and they remembered us ,was really special .

[@DASSTADT]

@@neilharrison9144 Thank you for your service Neil. I'm sure it was a quite special trip for you. Hope you found our country in a lot better shape then the previous time you were here 🙏

[@neilharrison9144]

@@DASSTADT hi oh yes very different,felt like coming home in some way . I was present at a massacre in 93 at Amichi nr vietez forgive my spelling . So we went back a couple of weeks ago and took part in the remembrance ceremony there and met the vice president of Bosnia. I had the honour of laying the wreath on behalf of us who were there that day . The people we met really made it worth it .

[@carjones2417]

We must never forget these people and to help all we can

[@DASSTADT]

Thank you for everything!!! People of Bosnia appreciate and love people of UK for their constant support!! 🇧🇦🇬🇧🇧🇦🇬🇧

[@nickkerr8775]

NATO needs to mind there own business and invading other countries , they are supposed to be a defensive alliance , not a invading army.

[@geeksqueak7123]

"New modern ambulances are on their way!" They've only just removed the old ones, 25 years later XD

[@Ferr1963]

4:05 I am convinced that the Catering Corps could have won the war simply by cooking for the Serbs. Unconditional surrender assured.

[@bsc4344]

My late brother was one of the first Hercs on the tarmac after it all broke out. He had 6 tours of that conflict, over 120 missions. 130315 couldve been one he flew there (6:15). Combat landing and t.o. Were routinely used.... Full run down runway, hard back on stick, flares deployed. And landing by diving at the ground pulling up right before threshold to land. Neat was the sound of the second hand (from the yanks apparently) ineffectual radar device declaring rocket lockon far too often. And them jury rigging GPS units brought from home, doing McGyvers with all sorts of non military gear to beat the junk they had to work with. He never showed us the arms damage to his Hercs. Home vids by him and crew show flying over an artillery piece at threshold im sure the degenerate killers wanted to scare off these aid flights. "Big sky" didnt know what it meant until described as "a three dimensional space (air) full of objects in flight (mortars, Hercs and bullets) are not likely to intercept each other". A self comforting statement when he flew through one of the mortar barrages. Us homebodies worried heavily for him, but he made it out ok. Only to die when a student learning to LAPES flew the Herc he was on into the ground. RIP my big bro. Remembrance Day is coming up but one never forgets all year long.....

[@gangstar8652]

That's really sad, RIP to your brother. I kind of feel your loss, I lost my stepdad, British SAS on AS first Gulf war"

[@bsc4344]

Bro was there too, the Highway of Death impressed him. Related or not i feel negligent with how little i knew about his tribulations even as it happened. Mind you even then msm were good at "shallow reporting"... And if HE didnt say i didnt know as far as im concerned. Respect, to both our fallen

[@BMF6889]

At 9:56 any pilot who can nail the threshold of the runway like that is very good. I was a private pilot and my flight instructor was a former Navy carrier pilot. He taught me the tips, tricks, and techniques to nail a landing at any spot I chose. Very handy when making an emergency landing in an open field and you have to make it right the first time or crash. These chaps likely have thousands of hours in the C-130, so they've perfected everything it takes to hit the threshold. Notice airlines rarely nail the threshold, but I think it's just a safety factor they add in on landing.

[@abes3925]

the biggest thing C-130s have is their powerful reverse thrust capabilities.Same thing for the C-17 and A400M

[@Surv1ve_Thrive]

A very complex conflict. Made more complex by the international media and politicians taking sides and looking for black and white stories to tell. Bad guys and good guys. Instead of reporting the conflict as being full of grey, confused areas, not black and white at all. Respect to the Brits who stood up to the risks and tried to help.

[@DM727T]

It was black and white you dimwit. Pure act of agression and genocide

[@jonathanmeza6527]

De Me No all war is grey. There are times where u don’t know who is good and who is bad

[@DM727T]

@@jonathanmeza6527 really? WWII? What's grey about that?

[@abc-eq9so]

Thank you sir for this comment. One of few thought out comments and not comment made by feeling and taking side. I'm from a mixed family from Bosnia, and only we know that the atrocities were committed by all sides. One just has to know a little bit about history to see that the three sides pretty much did the same things to one each other. Sheep and idiots see war black and white. Whats even more strange is that people who fought each other today pretty much get along. My uncle was on Serbian side and is today married to a Croatian women and has no issues what so ever with her Croatian family. It's only because they are all normal people . Those who were the biggest nationalists in the war was the biggest communists before the war.

[@DM727T]

@@abc-eq9so you sir are a liar and a good one at that

[@GunnersMovies]

Do you have any stuff from when we went in as NATO?

[@tylerkruse2202]

“Indiscriminate shelling” yes Serbia never discriminated against any religion.

[@kenanfurcle786]

Equal bombing for everyone

[@MissVirginVideos]

It's only fair that way

[@ricky7426]

atleast the serbs dont interfeere in the buisines of other nations

[@kenanfurcle786]

@@ricky7426 you mean any nation other than their neighbors?

[@ricky7426]

@@kenanfurcle786 jugoslavija was one country meaning the wars were internal affairs

[@speedbird006]

40 degrees glide slope, wow.

[@madlad2819]

why does it get so loud at 4:09

[@gunny1234]

Canadian Gen Lewis Mckenzie was running the operation in Sarajevo at this time,funny the reporter failed to mention him or the many Canadian soldiers guarding the airport, and no they didn't just sit there and take it,I know I served over there at this time myself

[@danielspillett5393]

1 tonne land rover good bit of kit pulling 105 +6 blokes and ammo

[@larstueschjth2658]

The 'maybe airline'🤤

[@Trek001]

More reliable than Thomas Cook

[@Danny-zi6xw]

all those Bedford M series lorries and they show a singular crusty old land rover

[@nathanjohnson1853]

"Prime Minister, the UN has asked which forces we'll send to this humanitarian crisis. What shall we do?" "I know! We'll send the elite of the British elite! Medical staff having to rely on Land Rovers and the catering corps to serve all sorts of exciting British food! That'll show them the benefits of international co-operation!"

[@jasip1000]

Why they attacked the airfield? Maybe because they considered it to be a part of their enemies supply line.

[@officerponcherrello1182]

4 minutes ten secs - I know that Sapper ;-) scouser.

[@ivansusovic9660]

I dont understand why did you wrote Croatia over the screen 0.06 and the whole thing is about Bosnia?

[@TheRealRedRooster]

Because they report started at the airport in Zagreb, which is the capital of Croatia.

[@HybridPhoenix08]

3:45 They're talking about how old and terrible the vehicles are. But the footage they show looks like one soldier teaching another how to drive stick shift. I mean, the driver spends 15 seconds revving the engine and fiddling around before he actually puts the damn thing in gear. Then, he immediately stalls it. I don't think the vehicle is to blame.

[@borninjordan7448]

@09:41, who else saw the tracer bullet go by? Also, the woman on the far left @17:22 is really pretty. Though, the look she gave the cameraman said it all. Either put down the camera and help or just leave.

[@JJVernig]

I don't know. Could also be a dropout on the Betacam tape..

[@borninjordan7448]

@@JJVernig I think you're right.

[@popeye-pi7ci]

nice to see they had pallets of SUGAR PUFFS! mm my favourite ..

[@BMF6889]

At 8:39, the British reporter is wearing his flak jacket open. Bad dog! No bone! I was a Marine platoon commander in Vietnam 1968-1969. It was stinking hot in the dry season and endless rain in the monsoon. In the dry season, most Marines didn't wear socks, skivvies, and not many wore even a T-shirt under their flak jackets. We didn't wear socks or skivvies because we were constantly wading through rice paddies and they were just another piece of clothing to try to dry out. We were in the field for up to two months at a time with no opportunity to bath, so we smelled to high heaven with body odor. For a bit of relief from the heat, I'd wear my flak jacket open to get some air circulation. To make a long story short, during an engagement where Marine artillery was firing "Danger Close" to our position, a piece of shrapnel hit me square int the chest. Had I had my flak jacket zipped up, I would have been OK. Pro Tip: bullets and shrapnel don't care how smart you are, they don't care if you are tactical genius, they don't care about anything. If you are in the wrong place at the wrong time, your going to be wounded or killed. The only thing you can do to help stay alive is to wear your protective gear properly. That reporter's flak jacket isn't going to help him if a sniper aims center of mass at his front.

[@simonshotter8960]

BMF6889 30 years ago mate, not sure you can help him now

[@ar568]

He's on a plane pal. Also, in the UK we don't care about the silly war that you lost to the rice farmers.

[@CancerGaming56]

NATO: Well our first priority is hearts and minds, so that the locals will like us. UN: Well it's not our fault if they expected so much from us! What are we supposed to do against insurgents? Fight back? Don't make me laugh. We specifically brought no combat troops, corps and regiments!

[@re_film_]

I live in Zagreb

[@tylerspunucious7420]

I don't

[@cbjamieson]

I know exactly why they would target the airfield to stop aircraft from landing or taking off. Black market.

[@ninus17]

i thought all reporters that are inside an active combat zone had to wear a helmet ?

[@PowerPAOK]

It was the 90s.

[@koningbolo4700]

They stopped demanding that of most journalists after discovering that the majority of the so called journalists are upon arriving at there editing location, opting to distort the news facts to make it fit a curtain narrative du semain. A principle which much later was affectionately called Fake News... which this video is obviously to a large degree consists of aswell...

[@tylerkruse2202]

John MacLellan if they are not part of the military or the peacekeepers.

[@tylerkruse2202]

John MacLellan but also they opted for more effective armor and also it doesn’t stop an angry Slav from taking a swig of moonshine and popping a 7.62 round into a press man.

[@libertas5005]

@@koningbolo4700 This is Airport Sarajevo 100%. I know because I flew from that place dozens of times. And I recognize the city and these buildings well because I lived there. Fake news is the specialty of Russian propagandists and their allies (such as Fox news).

[@ch2507d]

Karlovac is a Croatian town. This war would have never happened if the EU had prevented it in the first place. A mouse sneezes in the Middle East and an army is there within hours;but here right under their noses people killing each other they are just monitoring...

[@conanconan2511]

ch2507d “A mouse sneezes in the middle east and an army is there within hours” lol so true

[@PowerPAOK]

Actually the Balkans setting themselves on fire again in the 80s/90s is a big influence on the response that the US has taken post-Cold War.

[@Hammerhaswan]

NATO poo

[@Alig-07]

Little did they know Croatia beat us in 2019

[@BMF6889]

At 10:40 the airfield is under mortar attack. Question: where is the counter-mortar radar and the subsequent counter-mortar fire. Mortars don't have a lot of range like artillery, so it shouldn't be hard to locate their position and return fire. In Vietnam in the 1960's, we didn't have advanced technology in the infantry. A starlight scope was about the only technology advance we had since Marine infantry in WW II. By the 1980''s, we had counter-mortar radar and could respond. By the first Gulf War, we had pretty good counter-mortar and counter-artillery fire. The UN forces should have had that technology in Bosnia at the time. Instead, the reporter says the UN is going to talk to both sides to explain the attack on the airfield. It's a crazy world.

[@dr.pjuskebusk2501]

BMF6889 it was a peacekeeping not peacemaking mission. Didn’t make any sense in the middle of a shooting war. No peace to keep.

[@gangstar8652]

M16A1?

[@fredjackson8408]

What kinda plan were those 2 engine herc looking things? A British clone of the herc?

[@frederic2166]

C160 transal

[@fredjackson8408]

@@frederic2166 thanks man. It was bothering me so much not being able to figure it out lol

[@kenanfurcle786]

Yep that's the C160, used by the french

[@vitezizsrednjebosne1596]

middle Bosnia more videos please correctly Vitez pozz ppn. vitezovi

[@Roseneck12]

They do see that the plane is Canadian. Right

[@brodanquennell2810]

John MacLellan yep

[@ottodidakt3069]

UN troops or the ultimate disgrace of the blue beret

[@Mozli1]

more like TRASH TV, shame ............