WASHINGTON — The Air Force acknowledged on Tuesday that human body parts were found in the wheel well of an American military C-17 cargo plane that took flight amid chaos at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul.Air Force officials have not said how many people died in the episode on Monday, but said the service was investigating “the loss of civilian lives” as a crowd of Afghans, desperate to escape the country after their government collapsed to the Taliban, climbed onto the plane’s wings and fell from the sky after it took off.Harrowing video of the episode, recorded by the Afghan news media, has circulated around the world, instantly making the horrific scene — of American military might flying away as Afghans hung on against all hope — a symbol of President Biden’s retreat from Afghanistan.“We are all contending with a human cost to these developments,” Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser, said at a briefing on Tuesday.“The images from the past couple of days at the airport have been heartbreaking,” said Mr. Sullivan, the first cabinet-level administration official to take questions from reporters since the Taliban took control of Kabul on Sunday.
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} catch (e) {>Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., the top military officer in charge of Afghanistan, flew to Kabul on Tuesday, where, he said, commercial flights had resumed after they were paused to secure the field. A White House official said U.S. military flights evacuated about 1,100 people on Tuesday, bringing the total so far to more than 3,200.American pilots and troops were forced to make on-the-spot decisions during the panic at the airport on Sunday and Monday. Another C-17 transport plane left Kabul late Sunday night with 640 people crowded on board, more than double the planned number, military officials said, after hundreds of Afghans who had been cleared by the State Department to be evacuated surged onto loading ramps. The pilots, determining that the immense aircraft could handle the load, decided to take off, officials said. That plane landed safely at its destination with the Afghans aboard.But the people who tried the next day on a different C-17 were not so fortunate.Early Monday morning, the gray Air Force plane — call sign REACH885 — descended onto the runway. The lumbering jet was carrying equipment and supplies for the U.S. Marines and soldiers on the ground securing the airport and helping with the evacuation of thousands of Americans and Afghans.Minutes after the plane touched down, rolled to a stop and lowered its rear ramp, hundreds, perhaps thousands of Afghans, rushed forward as the small crew watched in alarm.Video{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","@id":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/100000007922808/kabul-airport-afghanistan-taliban.html","description":"One day after the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan, thousands of people who were desperate to flee the country rushed to the airport in Kabul.","url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/100000007922808/kabul-airport-afghanistan-taliban.html","name":"Watch: Scenes of Panic and Chaos at Kabul Airport","thumbnailUrl":["https://static01.nyt.com/images/2021/08/16/us/politics/16afghan-briefing-lede/16afghan-briefing-lede-videoSixteenByNine1050.jpg","https://static01.nyt.com/images/2021/08/16/us/politics/16afghan-briefing-lede/merlin_193332429_2bbb31a9-a1b0-46b5-b11e-08d30ece9360-superJumbo.jpg","https://static01.nytBy: Helene Cooper and Eric Schmitt
Title: Body Parts Found in Landing Gear of Flight From Kabul, Officials Say
Sourced From: www.nytimes.com/2021/08/17/us/politics/afghans-deaths-us-plane.html
Published Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 01:01:59 +0000
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