Afghan citizen’s body found lodged in C-17

As thousands of Afghan citizens scrambled aboard the sides of U.S. Air Force planes leaving Kabul yesterday, one individual seems to have gotten caught in the landing gear of a C-17 Globemaster III, just before it took flight.

The body reportedly forced the plane to make an emergency landing in a nearby country, after making the landing gear inoperable. Some have speculated that the person was likely stuck in the landing gear door, rather than the gear itself.

A video circulating around Twitter shows a body flailing as it is stuck to a C-17 in flight. Pop Smoke Media chose not to include the video, but it is relatively easy to find.

Afghans in distress

Human remains were found inside the C-17 transport plane’s wheel well. Officials identified the remains during the emergency landing, according to sources that informed both The Washington Post and Politico.

It’s unclear whether this plane is the same as the one seen in recent viral videos showing the masses chasing after it and climbing aboard. It is also unknown if the plane was the same that was seen packed with hundreds of Afghan citizens.

At the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul there have already been numerous deaths reported, as well as videos showing people falling from planes after departing. This case in particular has to be one of the most gruesome outcomes from the chaos at the airport.

If anything is to be taken from this, it is that some Afghan citizens are so desperate to escape the clutches of the Taliban that they are willing to risk life and limb, in any manner.