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Polybius

(15,238 posts)
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 11:16 PM Aug 2021

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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Dial H For Hero

(2,971 posts)
2. There will always be some people who will believe things that are absurd on the face of it.
Tue Aug 17, 2021, 12:06 AM
Aug 2021

In this case, with tragic results.

orleans

(33,986 posts)
4. i had cnn on earlier when they first aired the video and gave fair warning; i turned away
Tue Aug 17, 2021, 12:26 AM
Aug 2021

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)
5. "Did they really think that they could hold on until the plane landed?"
Tue Aug 17, 2021, 02:34 AM
Aug 2021

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)
6. We've had 2500 Americans KILLED in that shithole. How about their lives?
Tue Aug 17, 2021, 07:13 AM
Aug 2021

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)
7. Wow, reenacting the Saigon Airlift
Tue Aug 17, 2021, 09:05 AM
Aug 2021

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.

RevBrotherThomas

(838 posts)
9. Pure Hollywood??
Tue Aug 17, 2021, 09:53 AM
Aug 2021

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)
12. Not the way I read it...
Tue Aug 17, 2021, 11:38 AM
Aug 2021

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.

IamHappy

(459 posts)
11. Don't be fooled by this video. I don't doubt someone might have died
Tue Aug 17, 2021, 11:31 AM
Aug 2021

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)
13. People running around or loitering are economic refugees seeking to migrate to the West
Tue Aug 17, 2021, 11:47 AM
Aug 2021

Approved evacuees are segregated in the military section, which is guarded by U.S. soldiers

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