Afghans Fall from U.S. Military Plane After Clinging to Aircraft in Shocking Video
Source: Newsweek
Three young men have reportedly fallen mid-air from a plane leaving Kabul after allegedly losing grip of the exterior of the aircraft, alarming footage appears to show.
In a video uploaded by the Afghan Asvaka News agency and seemingly taken from the ground, two unidentifiable objects can be seen falling from the body of a plane as it flies overhead.
"The video shows a flight from Kabul airport where two people are thrown from a plane into the people's homes," the agency said alongside the 11-second clip which has since garnered more than one million views.
The Afghan men were hanging to the tires of a C-17 U.S. military aircraft, the publication reported.
Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/afghanis-fall-us-military-plane-after-clinging-wing-shocking-video-1619589
Absolutely horrible, but clinging to a plane is pure Hollywood. No one can hold onto a plane in the air for long. Did they really think that they could hold on until the plane landed? So tragic.
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Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Dial H For Hero
(2,971 posts)In this case, with tragic results.
LuvLoogie
(6,854 posts)They didn't think that one out.
orleans
(33,986 posts)and didn't watch
still not watching.
years ago on tv i saw people falling from the twin towers and heard the thud sounds their bodies made as they landed while the cameras were recording in the lobby. it still chills me. i didn't need to see this.
NullTuples
(6,017 posts)Watch this GIF of how the landing gear are configured.
If you didn't know better, it might look like a pretty secure place to grab hold if you are young & desparate. Until suddenly, it completely and tragically isn't.
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Bengus81
(6,907 posts)Tired of this shit against Biden and now CNN and MSNBC are on his back. How many more need to DIE in Afghanistan?
Farmer-Rick
(10,072 posts)The more things change the more they stay the same.
The US really needs to develop a better way to withdraw from a failed, useless, expensive war.
twodogsbarking
(9,300 posts)We will have to make up alternate realities (lies) to make it look otherwise.
RevBrotherThomas
(838 posts)Maybe I am misunderstanding your intent here; are you implying the people clinging to the fuselage of a sky bound plane were trying to do so for show???
LudwigPastorius
(8,944 posts)To me, "pure Hollywood" meant, "is only something that is possible to survive in a Hollywood movie".
...meaning, the people who attempted to do this were desperate enough to consign themselves to a grisly death rather than stay in Afghanistan.
radicalleft
(478 posts)for an act this stupid. Sorry
IamHappy
(459 posts)but there is more to this story. Think about it what adult would hang on to a plane, even if going slow? Look at the men and their clothing, have these men been vetted? USA must be careful of who comes into this country. You don't see this behavior in the rest of the country we have seen.
Now go ahead and blast me for telling my truth.
dalton99a
(81,065 posts)Approved evacuees are segregated in the military section, which is guarded by U.S. soldiers