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That Story of Afghans Falling off Fleeing
Transport Planes Just Got So
Much Worse

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Posted By: Dreadnought, 8/17/2021 3:54:59 PM

Yesterday, a disturbing video emerged from Kabul airport showing thousands of Afghans storming a C-17 transport aircraft. AH-64 Apache helicopters were being used to swoop down and clear a path so the plane could take off. That’s how ill-prepared the evacuation was. Other videos showed the scene after the plane rotated and began climbing, with at least two individuals falling to their deaths. Now, we are learning more about what transpired, including the fact that the deaths didn’t stop there. This is an inexplicable situation, not because the pilots did anything wrong, but because they were put in this position in the first place. They had to make

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Come And Take It 8/17/2021 4:07:42 PM (No. 882773)
I have seen the referenced picture in the article on Twitter of the man crushed by the landing gear. The plane at that time was well above the cloud deck and probably at cruising speed (450 kts).
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Reply 2 - Posted by: itsonlyme 8/17/2021 4:08:29 PM (No. 882774)
There are Pentagon Pukes giving misinformation, to the American people, in order to save their jobs. The "spinmeisters" are working overtime. Then there's Hussein........ 34 Minutes Ago........ "A Taliban leader who reportedly helped orchestrate the group's takeover of Afghanistan was released by former President Barack Obama in exchange for former U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in 2014." "Bergdahl, however, later pleaded guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy in 2017 and has been slammed by former President Donald Trump as a "dirty rotten traitor."" The Chosen One from Chicago
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Reply 3 - Posted by: LanceLink1 8/17/2021 4:14:13 PM (No. 882777)
The depends dude from Delaware took twenty minutes off from his vacation to address this issue. What more do you want.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: GoodDeal 8/17/2021 4:22:08 PM (No. 882789)
It's funny how none of the people that boarded a flight was wearing a mask. Just saying...
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Reply 5 - Posted by: JubilationTCornpone 8/17/2021 4:30:38 PM (No. 882796)
Biden insisted they had an evacuation plan. If this is it, it shows the complete incompetence of our government. “Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” — Mike Tyson.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Venturer 8/17/2021 4:33:01 PM (No. 882797)
Assuming that Biden ordered the troops out, Where were the Generals who had to decide how to leave? Wasn't it the Generals who decided to give up Bagram? Wasn't it the generals who decided it was every man for himself pack and run? Did they have no say in this? I am surprised there weren't bodies all over the runway as the plane took off and ran them down. Of course the Pilots had no choice.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Rama41 8/17/2021 4:34:13 PM (No. 882799)
This isn't the first time: here's the same thing at Danang in 1975: https://tinyurl.com/3335e5vw
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Reply 8 - Posted by: thethirdruffian 8/17/2021 4:45:08 PM (No. 882809)
Logistically, this was just so stupid. First, Bagram was easily defended and should have been the last place to leave. Second, it's one thing to step out of any sort of active roll in Afgranistan. It's another it high and dry. We could have stepped back to Bagram indefinately. The sheet incompetence is amazing.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Jethro bo 8/17/2021 4:58:37 PM (No. 882823)
Maybe Biden should make a flag based on the video and fly it over all the US embassies in Muzzie nation. Just to let 'em know our colors run!
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Luandir 8/17/2021 5:00:19 PM (No. 882826)
I can't shake the heartbreaking realization that those people had no idea of the conditions outside an aircraft at cruising altitude. It's not like hanging on to a bus, truck, or train. Joe Beijing (or his puppeteers) drove those ignorant people to fatal acts of desperation.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Bur Oak 8/17/2021 5:12:16 PM (No. 882845)
Just you wait, the aircrew will be punished not some general at the Pentagon that ordered the plane to be sent.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Omen55 8/17/2021 5:13:32 PM (No. 882850)
I doubt Biden will remember any of this next week.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Geoman 8/17/2021 6:04:15 PM (No. 882935)
It's a wonder that a handful of fleeing Afghanis weren't sucked into the very large, powerful engines on the C-17 as it was spooling up to take off.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: pensom2 8/17/2021 6:33:06 PM (No. 882965)
In other news, the poor idiot who died in the landing gear doors was declared to have died of COVID.
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