Photos from an exodus flight being operated by the US Air Force between Kabul and Qatar surfaced on the internet in the aftereffect of the turbulent visuals from Kabul Airport.
The army plane called the Boeing C-17 Globemaster took off from the Kabul Airport jampacked with around 640 people sitting shoulder to shoulder. As per the information, the maximum passenger capacity of the airplane is 134 people in a ?palletized arrangement? with 80 passengers on eight pallets, plus 54 seated at the sidewall.
A photo from the inside of Reach 871, a U.S. Air Force C-17 flown from Kabul to Qatar yesterday with 640 Afghans on board, via @DefenseOne https://t.co/NMqqOSqDdv pic.twitter.com/J2yTl84han
? Vera Bergengruen (@VeraMBergen) August 16, 2021
Let us tell you that as per flight tracking software, the plane uses the call sign Reach 871 and its home base is the Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, US. As informed by a US defence website, the pilots of the plane did not intend to carry such a large load of passengers but decided to go ahead after seeing panicked Afghans cleared for evacuation crowd around the airplane. The flight is one of the biggest passenger payloads on record the massive Boeing cargo plane. The current record is held by a C-17 Globemaster flight that evacuated 670 people from the Philippines after a typhoon in 2013.
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