On the day of the dramatic assault by terrorized Afghans of American planes at Kabul airport, a C-17, a military cargo plane, took off with 640 refugees crammed on board, taking them to safety in Qatar. This is what we read on the Defense One website, which also publishes photos of the inside of the plane, with many people, mostly young men, but also women, the elderly, children, sitting on the ground during the flight, which took place last Sunday.
According to the reconstruction made by some sources, the C-17 was not supposed to leave so loaded, but the Afghans who had obtained the authorization to leave and were waiting their turn, managed to enter through the semi-open tailgate of the aircraft.
Instead of having the military intervene to let out the people who should not have been on board the C-17, “the crew decided to leave”, the sources say, stressing that it is believed that this was the largest number of people. never carried by this type of cargo plane. “About 640 Afghan civilians disembarked from the plane when it arrived at its destination”, the sources say, correcting previous reports of 800 refugees transported aboard the C-17.