C-17 Sets Record For Evacuation Flight With 823 Passengers

August 20, 2021
A crowd of 823 civilians packed into a C-17 for a roughy 3-hr.-long evacuation flight from Afghanistan to Qatar on Aug. 15
Credit: U.S. Air Force
A single U.S. Air Force C-17 evacuated 823 people from Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan on Aug. 15 at the beginning of panicked rush by Afghan civilians to leave the country following the Taliban’s sudden rout of the national government, Air Mobility Command (AMC) said Aug...

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