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2022-06-15 Afghanistan
Air Force concludes that C-17 crew are not at fault for deaths of Afghans who fell from their evacuation plane and were fatally crushed in jet's landing gear
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Air Force says its transport crew made the right decision to leave Kabul airport amid a chaotic withdrawal last August

  • The USAF concluded that air crew members acted appropriately and were not at fault for some tragic deaths during the evacuation from Afghanistan last year

  • Crew exhibited 'sound judgment' in face of an 'unprecedented' security crisis, according to a report compiled by the military branch

  • Desperate Afghans clung to a military plane as it was taking off and fell to their deaths or were caught in the wheels

  • Crowds of people had surged onto the runway at the airport in Kabul in a desperate attempt to flee the country

  • Human remains were discovered in the wheel well of the the C-17 military transport plane after it landed in Qatar
Posted by Skidmark 2022-06-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top

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Posted by Pholing Crererong6639 2022-06-15 01:03||   2022-06-15 01:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Will the Air Force now be required to put wheel well cameras on it's planes?
Posted by Deacon Blues 2022-06-15 07:33||   2022-06-15 07:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Wheel well seating? I hope Delta doesn't see this article.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-06-15 07:54||   2022-06-15 07:54|| Front Page Top

#4 #2 Don't forget the side mirrors for the pilot and co-pilot.
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-06-15 08:26||   2022-06-15 08:26|| Front Page Top

#5 Delta probably already did and decided the seating would be too comfortable, B.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2022-06-15 08:51||   2022-06-15 08:51|| Front Page Top

#6 ...Had My Beloved Service made any other call, the pushback would have been epic. Those kids - and 44 years after hitting the parade ground at Lackland, I can say that - pulled off something that shouldn't have even been imaginable, much less possible. It wasn't their fault that some moron decided to hang on for the ride.

Mike
Posted by MikeKozlowski 2022-06-15 10:11||   2022-06-15 10:11|| Front Page Top

#7 A real investigation would have concluded the cause was Biden’s poor decision making and preparation.
Posted by Airandee 2022-06-15 20:26||   2022-06-15 20:26|| Front Page Top

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