He Saw The Frenzy': The Afghan Men Who Tumbled From The US Stream

One was a youthful footballer, another a dental specialist. Their stunning passings torment the families who couldn't stop their frantic offers to get away.

When Zaki Anwari scaled the fence of Kabul air terminal, not really set in stone to get away. The 17-year-old footballer with the Afghan public youth group had some time off from reading up maths for his tests to go with his sibling as he attempted to get a flight. Zaki had consistently told his family he was not keen on traveling to another country, except if he could get back to Afghanistan.

However, the Taliban takeover had changed things. Zaki didn't have an identification at the same time, as night fell on Kabul later the Taliban assumed responsibility for the city, he told his sibling Zakir that he needed to leave. Zakir gave a valiant effort to work him out of it, yet he would not relinquish the thought.

Zaki was one of somewhere around twelve men who climbed locally available the outside of a US flying corps C-17 Globemaster transport plane as it navigated on the runway the next day. Not even one of them came to the plane's objective, the Al Udeid airbase in Qatar.

Individuals jumping on to landing stuff of US Airforce C17

Froze men run close by the US transport plane on the runway at Kabul air terminal in a frantic endeavor to get locally available.

The plane had handled a brief time before to convey gear to US powers. The night prior to, another airplane had emptied 823 individuals escaping the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, and Zaki joined the fresh debuts on the air terminal runway, expecting a comparative break.

Monday 16 August was clear and splendid, and the youthful competitor should monitor the family's vehicle with Zakir while their more established sibling, Naser, jarred among individuals outside the air terminal grasping archives to leave.

Not long before 11am, Zaki called Ahmad, the main sibling still at home, to let him know he had gotten around the edge divider around the air terminal. "I'm near the plane presently, they'll register our names after they put us in the plane, and afterward I'll lose the telephone signal. I will discard my telephone," he said.

Ahmad yelled at him to get back home until Zaki hung up. After twenty minutes, Zaki called his mom to address his sister, telling her that he believed he got an opportunity to get onto the plane, and requesting that she petition God for him. His mom put him on speaker to shout at him to return home, rebuking him that he had no identification or travel records.

Seeing the groups surging towards the plane, the team concluded that they needed to take off. The cumbersome dim airplane started maneuvering as crowds of individuals ran close by it. In the midst of the mayhem, a modest number jumped on to a wide fairing over the haggles smooth expansive region over the wheel well.

Video shared by Asvaka, an Afghan news office, shows the men grinning anxiously and waving to others accumulated close to the landing area, with something like 12 locally available. Some waved energetically, the breeze whipping their hair as the plane got a move on. Two hopped off and made a scramble once more into the group before the plane took off.

Stunned spectators gazed toward the sky, some recording on their telephones, as somewhere around two bodies tumbled from the plane as it flew south over Kabul. Afghans remarking on the web attracted correlations with the "Falling Man", captured tumbling from the twin pinnacles on 11 September 2001, a troubling bookend to the US presence in Afghanistan. The ones who fell were scarcely kids, some not conceived, when the US and its partners attacked Afghanistan 20 years sooner.

Fada Mohammad, 24 , was naturally introduced to a universe of common conflict and Taliban rule four years before the US attack in 2001. The youthful dental specialist had since a long time ago longed for leaving, yet did not have an arrangement or the monetary means. His dad, Payenda Mohammad, said Fada had been searching for ways of tracking down cash since getting hitched a year ago.

"Fada had discussed needing to travel, however monetarily things were awful here. Anybody taking a gander at the circumstance in this nation would need to be somewhere else, and Fada was the same," Payenda said. Fada was the family's provider, supporting 13 others.

Fada left as normal for work on the morning of 16 August. His significant other and family had no clue he was going to the air terminal. "He bid farewell to us very much like any typical day, when he left for work at 8.30am," said Payenda. "He said nothing regarding the air terminal, or travel."

Indeed, even in his despondency, Ahmad attempted to comprehend the reason why Zaki clung to the plane. "He saw the frenzy, he saw the Taliban – anybody would be terrified," he said.

What occurred next is the subject of an examination by the US aviation based armed forces. Its representative, Ann Stefanek, said the plane was encircled by regular people who had penetrated the air terminal dividers before it could offload its freight. "Confronted with a quickly weakening security circumstance around the airplane, the C-17 team chose to leave the runway as fast as could be expected," she said. American helicopters flew before the plane to clear space on the runway to take off.

The authority record and recordings show that the pilot was either incapable to see the men sticking to the plane later departure, or was reluctant to stop the plane. The fold the men had used to get on to the wheel well creases under the airplane as the arrival gear are withdrawn. The people who didn't fall were most likely killed.

“In addition to videos viewed online and in press coverage, human remains were found when the C-17 was opened after landing at Al Udaid Air Force Base in Qatar. The plane is currently being confiscated to allow time to collect debris and inspect the plane before it is flown back," Stefanek said.

Authorities in Kabul say the US occupation could have acted differently. "These people thought the pilot would stop and take them inside," said an Afghan health ministry official who tried to identify several of the men after they died. The employee has not been named for his own safety.

One of the men fell on the airport fence, and two others hit the roof of a neighborhood near the airport. A local resident who heard the body land on the roof described it as "like a bomb".

Anwaris told that after the plane take off, someone called Zaki's sister on her phone to let them know they had found her dead body. The family believes that during takeoff, Zaki got caught under the plane's wheels, or possibly on the landing gear, on his return to the wheelbase.

Fada's wife became very worried after her husband did not call as usual at the time which is 10am to say he had come to the work. "Then at 2 p.m. we got a call from a stranger asking if we knew Fada Mohammed," Payenda said. The stranger said that Fada's body was found and dumped from the plane. Payenda rushed to take his son's body.

Another victim's brother, 15-year-old Matin, told Pajhwok News Agency that the family could not find him after seeing Matin in a video showing the group riding tires on the plane. "There were 21 men on the plane, two of whom jumped before the flight, but we only saw 12 bodies in the hospital," he said. "We didn't hear anything, we couldn't find his body - we went everywhere. The bodies fell all over the place."

Health ministry officials before the Taliban said it was almost impossible to know exactly how many people died in the crash or to identify yourself after the government was overthrown.

“Parts of their bodies were so badly damaged from the high fall that it was very difficult to identify them. No government is investigating the incident," he said. If you know the Taliban, you will understand why men do this.