A viral video appears to show a hurricane disaster relief site in North Carolina being damaged by an unmarked Black Hawk helicopter’s “deliberate” rotor wash.
According to a video shared on TikTok, the helicopter incident took place on Sunday as people gathered supplies to distribute to Hurricane Helene victims at a parking lot in Burnsville, North Carolina. The video shows a mysterious helicopter hovering above the parking lot as volunteers collect supplies for hurricane victims.
In a caption accompanying the video, the TikTok user wrote, “This afternoon [an] Unmarked Military Style Helo flies into the local distribution area and rotor washes/ destroys supplies in Burnsville, NC.”
The TikTok user noted that helicopters were not supposed to land near the hurricane disaster relief site, saying, “We had a meeting with all parties involved at this site and established it as a ‘no fly, no drop’ zone hours before and had sent crews to re-supply helos at another area. THIS WAS NOT ONE OF OUR HELOS!”
Despite the designation as a “no fly” zone, the video shows the Black Hawk helicopter hovering over the relief site for a considerable amount of time. The TikTok user explained that the relief site volunteers used signals to dissuade the unidentified pilots from landing.
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The TikTok user added, “Then they dipped down and performed a ‘rotor wash’ which seemed deliberate then flew off, destroying a lot of the staging area and harming the people directly below them in the staging area.”
While the video shows that the hurricane disaster relief site was not totally “destroyed” by the helicopter’s “rotor wash,” the video does show that multiple pop-up shelters and supplies were scattered by the helicopter.
According to the TikTok user the helicopter was “unmarked” and was piloted by “masked persons.” The social media user added, “Local PD came in and we’ve been trying to find/track their flight info to find out who they are and where they flew in from…nothing…they’re ghosts.”
In the caption to the TikTok video, the user also claimed that the helicopter incident occurred shortly after two mysterious vehicles “circled around” the disaster relief site.
“Forty minutes prior to this 2 unmarked black SUVs running blue lights rolled in, circled around and immediately left,” the user stated. “They were not local [law enforcement] and not anyone we had been affiliated with.”
Another video on X, formerly Twitter, shows a different angle of the helicopter incident as a man questions why the helicopter disrupted the relief site. In the video, the man recording the incident can be heard asking other volunteers whether they think the helicopter intentionally damaged the relief site, prompting the volunteers to respond, “Absolutely.”
