US military aircraft C-17 evacuated 640 people from Kabul at the same time

According to Defense One, at first it was not planned to take on board so many passengers, but the locals were able to break into the airport and entered the plane on their own. The crew decided not to land people, but to take everyone away.

Note that earlier, the same plane carried such a significant number of passengers in 2013, when 670 people were evacuated from the typhoon zone in the Philippines.

We will remind that on the eve chaos and crush reigned at the airport of the Afghan capital. The US military fired shots. Some Afghans tried to cling to the landing gear of the plane and fell as it climbed up. Several people died.

On August 15, the radical Taliban * took over Kabul. They managed to do it without firing a shot. Afghan President Ghani fled the country in a helicopter full of money.

* a terrorist organization banned on the territory of the Russian Federation.