KABUL — The first full day of Taliban rule in Kabul on Monday saw a mad rush by thousands of Afghans on the city’s international airport, in a frantic, last-ditch effort to flee the country.
Hundreds of people ran alongside the wheels of a U.S. military aircraft as it attempted to take off Monday. Others climbed up the sides of the plane as it edged forward, engines roaring.
Some kept hold of the undercarriage even as the aircraft rose, and at least one person appeared to fall from a height during takeoff. One local Afghan news agency published images of a body that apparently landed on a Kabul rooftop.
At least seven people at the airport have been confirmed dead, the Associated Press reported.
The dire scenes illustrated the level of fear sweeping some parts of Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover on the heels of the U.S. military withdrawal — a policy decision critics described as the hasty abandonment of a country to which American officials once pledged unflinching commitment.
But in many parts of downtown Kabul, Monday passed largely peacefully, a sharp contrast to the airport chaos. Stores were largely shuttered, although a trickle of people were going about their business. Services such as banks and government offices were also closed.
“What has happened to us? Have we turned into animals?” said one man at the airport as he watched people elbow and kick on a narrow staircase for a seat on a plane that would take them abroad.
Like others in this report, the man spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.
The man shook his head in disbelief at his surroundings as well as at himself. He was still in the middle of the application process for an expedited U.S. visa. A return to Taliban rule was so concerning that he arrived at the airport with his family, bags packed but no visa and no ticket.
Source : https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/08/16/afghan-kabul-airport/
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You absolute buffoon
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Yup I believe it. They had balloon tanks and stuff during WW2 as well
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I wanna say dumbass but these people probably have no idea about flight speed, altitude, pressure, etc. Bet he thought he could hang on.
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With that being said, he’s still a dumbass.
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Ok, care to explain why?
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It's pretty obvious just by looking at a plane. Even a toddler would be able to sense the danger of climbing it as it lifts off. Your instincts alone can tell you how terrible of an idea it is.
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Fuck youre dumber than them to be honest.
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Don't forget temperature. At 35,000 feet it's about 50 to 60 degrees below zero and the wind would be going by at a few hundred miles per hour. Any stowaway on the outside of the plane wouldn't have lasted long, not even in the wheel well of the landing gear if they could get in there without getting smushed.
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Do we know thats how high this plane was gonna fly?
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i want to say they are all fucking idiots.. who decided it was okay for that many people(let alone just one) run along side a moving plane?
and then who would run near the wheels of that thing? let along hang on as it departures
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Its a plane? Looks more like a balloon.
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lol, it says u s. military jet in the article
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Could have been a balloon of a us military jet
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lol, i know how to read, and i saw your other comment.. if that is the type of shit you want floating around in your head, then go right ahead
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Just look at the windows and the engines. Look up images of that same craft and tell me its not fake
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Ummm.... No one, dude, it was just chaos.
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I didnt see anything. What is that? Who are these people?
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Kabul skydiving club
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shi was not funny
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he thought he was in mission impossible
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What is this bullshit, have these people never once in their lives seen Tom cruise. Just slap a Velcro patch on the plane and fly… converting to Scientology guarantees a 200% life ratio, sad for the plebs
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Looks like a behind the scenes of world war z
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I knew the fall of Kabul was a mess but holy fuck. Had no idea it was this desperate.
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Reminds me of the Tom cruise stunt for mission impossible. I wonder if that’s what they were going for. Eh almost had it.
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Another one of Biden’s idiotic moves.
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Afghani paratroopers
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Gravity will get you everytime
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You win again gravity
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😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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look at the moron in the foreground of the video looking forward to it like he's about to land in disney land![:duckdance: :duckdance:](/e/duckdance.webp)
![:marseylaughpoundfist: :marseylaughpoundfist:](/e/marseylaughpoundfist.webp)
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Fake plane
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shoulda let go man :/
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All those billions of dollars of weapons left there for them to use to fight the Taliban, and they'd rather hold on to a plane than pick them up to defend themselves, their families and their people.
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That dude in the very first frame lol
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He forgot to put his seatbelt on
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Taliban or death? Death please....
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Snapshots:
archive.org
ghostarchive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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Beautiful plane.
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LOL nice.
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are u fucking kidding me cuz karma is real fella
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You can't really blame them since they never had flown before. Next time they'll sit on the inside of the plane
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Isnt that the same plane where this reporter or whatever he was got in ? The guy visited the Taliban called them Talibros and wrote a book and making tweets abou how easy it was to "fool" and befriend them. He went back there and was never seen again.
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