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Aug 16, 2021, 9 tweets

#BREAKING: Shocking scene from #Kabul Airport. Several Afghans who had grabbed landing gear of a #USAF's C-17A transport aircraft to flee from #Afghanistan dropped from air as the airplane took off! This is why #USArmy wants to keep them away from the C-17As!

This video well show how two or three Afghan civilians were seating on the landing gear bay of a #USAF's C-17A trying to flee from #Afghanistan under rule of #Taliban. They fell to the ground once the airplane with
02-1109 serial number took-off from #Kabul airport!

Civilian crowd around #Kabul airport have found the corpses of the three men who fell off the landing gear bay of the #USAF's C-17A which departed from the airport & was involved in the evacuation operation of #Afghanistan.

02-1109, a C-17A of #USAF carrying almost 800 Afghan refugees onboard left #Kabul, #Afghanistan almost 2 hours ago while a crowd of civilians were on the runway of the airport!

Civilians were seating on the main landing gear bays of 02-1109, a C-17A of #USAF involved in the evacuation of Afghan civilians from #Kabul, #Afghanistan almost 2 hours ago. Most of them fell on the runway but three fell from sky & died immediately.

This is from another angle! I heard that some even crushed under landing gears of this C-17A of #USAF!

This shocking video is still unverified but is claimed to be showing one of the #Afghan refugees who tried to flee from #Kabul through grabbing the upper section of the main landing gear bays of a #USAF's C-17A (s/n 02-1109) yesterday. He has certainly died over lack of Oxygen!

Above footage is now verified. Per crew of 02-1109, a C-17A of #USAF involved in this accident, corpses of Afghan refugees hanging around the airplane & inside its wheel bay resulted malfunction in the landing gear door. The airplane diverted to #Qatar for emergency landing.

The Afghan refugees who were riding on the landing gear bays of the #USAF's C-17A transport aircraft to flee from #Kabul, #Afghanistan filmed the moments before their death.

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