About 10,000 people are processed but are unable to depart Kabul's airport, a soldier told CNN's Clarissa Ward, who said no US flight had left in eight hours. A US official says flights will resume soon.
Military cargo flight, captured in photo packed with Afghans, flew even more people than originally reported, flew more than 800 people on board – far more than originally confirmed by the Air Force, according to the crew who flew the mission.
The massive number of people is a record to fly on the US Air Force’s C-17 Globemaster III, a military plane that can be used to carry both cargo and passengers when needed, US Air Force spokesperson Hope Cronin said. The C-17 has been in operation for almost three decades. When the plane is being used to transport passengers, there are several configurations the plane’s crew can use to transport different numbers of people, ranging from 10 to 336 people at a time.
The previous record of people flown on a C-17 was 670 people that were flown out by the US Air Force after Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines in 2013.
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