The Pentagon announced today, Friday, that the transport aircraft departed from Kabul and from which the camera captured an iconic frame, as it shows hundreds of stacked Afghans even on the floor of the aircraft, he had carried one a total record number of 823 passengers.
An initial estimate of 640 passengers being taken by bus to the runway did not include 183 children, many of whom were sitting on their parents’ knees, the US military administration explained.
This is a record number for a transport aircraft C-17 Globemaster III, more than double the normal capacity of this large plane, writes AFP.
The Pentagon did not specify the number of members crew who were on the packed plane, which took off on Sunday, in emergency conditions.
The plane “safely transported 823 Afghans from Hamid Karzai International Airport,” said the U.S. military, which on Tuesday had tried to alleviate chaos which prevailed in relation to these releases, as broadcast by ΑΠΕ ΜΠΕ.
This photo “testifies to the humanity of our soldiers in their mission”, the general had stated Hank Taylor on behalf of the Pentagon.
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