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Good to see part of the government working as it’s supposed to.
Good to see part of the government working as it’s supposed to.
While some Allied military flights were not full because people could not get to the airport, there is a claim that Canadian C-17s could not carry full payload as they cannot be refueled in the air. (Which is odd as Canada has refuelling tankers perhaps media do not grasp things.)
Just going to a safe country would eliminate that problem, but more importantly reduce cycle time of evacuation flights out of Kabul.
BTW, there are many airliner type aircraft evacuating people out of Kabul, many could be US military/executive 737 and 757 airplanes, but some media are saying ‘charters’. Media could be confused, executive aircraft may be unmarked though have a recognized paint scheme, C-39 military 737s are marked according to Wikipedia.
Flightradar24 tells the story in Kabul. Lots of C17’s and C-130’s as well as some 737’s. All military. Civilian airliners don’t come into play until they pick up their passengers from bases in Qatar and UAE. The claim about Canadian C-17’s doesn’t make sense since it is a relatively short flight to those bases.
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Biden rejected advice from military and winged it, with tragic results now and in future.
(He’s emboldened enemies - already Russia is saying the US will abandon the Ukraine.
The airliners being called up for use in this fashion is a program designed just for these sorts of situations. I’m not sure when the program started, but it’s been around longer the most of us here.
One problem we’ve had with our ever more incompetent government has been that the elected and non elected leadership has been ignoring or purposefully rejecting the emergency planning done mostly by competent people years in advance just so we wouldn’t have to rely on quick decisions made under pressure and without any plans or rehearsals for their execution.
I’m really worried that future plans are going to be less adequate since the planners will rationally place little importance on their jobs given the unlikely event no one cares or will ever know if they phone it in.
Although I just now see two Kam Air Airbus 340’s going to and leaving Kabul from Abu Dhabi. I bet you there are no Americans on board those planes… Lots of C-17’s today.