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    Quote Originally Posted by rondog View Post
    Where they gonna put 'em?
    Probably in hotels until they get their steady government check and then move out into society.

    Thank goodness for tax dollars right?
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    This article says they will resume the evacuation. A lot of refugees coming here now.

    "Taylor added that the Pentagon’s goal, which is slated to take approximately 24 hours to roll out, is to evacuate approximately 5,000-9,000 passengers out of Kabul daily. This plan would require flying one military cargo aircraft out of Kabul per hour."

    https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/17/flig...ghanistan.html
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    Default I read one plane had a problem with the landing gear

    That explains the malfunction indicator in the cockpit. Poor aircrew has to deal with this.

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    ^ link or news?

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    Quote Originally Posted by MrPrena View Post
    ^ link or news?
    The tweet I posted has this pic. More news: https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/20...ng-gear-photo/
    Last edited by RblDiver; 08-17-2021 at 12:01.

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    Thanks.
    it surprise me that they would rather take a chance (nearly 0% survival) like that.

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    Default Just me speculating...

    Quote Originally Posted by MrPrena View Post
    ^ link or news?
    I am assuming there was some kind of malfunction indicator in the cockpit. I worked avionics in the USAF, but I may be wrong. The most likely knowledgeable person on the subject would be a C-17 Crew Chief. The Crew Chief is an enlisted person that oversees the serviceability of the aircraft from a maintenance point of view. The USAF will probably issue a report eventually as some kind of A/C mishap.

    Quote from article below:

    "The body in the aircraft's landing gear has made it temporarily inoperable, the sources said."




    https://www.politico.com/news/2021/0...airport-505400
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    Quote Originally Posted by MrPrena View Post
    Thanks.
    it surprise me that they would rather take a chance (nearly 0% survival) like that.
    You have to have some intelligence to understand what your survival rate would even be, issues with hypoxia at altitude, holding on in 400mph wind, etc. etc.

    So many people over there have the capacity of a grade school kid in many things. Black marketing and haggling, they are often pro level. Getting buy on things 15 years after we would have put it in the dump, pro level.

    Estimating the future consequences of potential decisions, well.... lets just say they didn't get a participation star in that class.

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