I got to know Jim Tilley quite well during the late 1990s, shortly before he died. I always remember asking him if he recalled any particularly 'hairy' moments, to which he replied in a somewhat serious tone: "I nearly lost one of my crew out of the back door. We often practised dropping heavy supply containers, which we did from slightly lower than 200ft. No parachutes or anything, just freefall. For this role, the cabin had a conveyer installed to get the cargo out as quick as possible. These containers would 'whoosh' through the fuselage over the steel rollers and were then pushed out the cargo door. One of the lads got hit in the back of the legs by a load and very nearly went out with it!"
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