Afghanistan - 20 years on

If those reports are true that's seriously worrying. Appears the evacuation effort was started way too late - surely no way all the planned evacuees can be transported now. Not to mention our soldiers - I hope there is a damn robust backup plan for getting them out if the airport is lost.
 
GreatAuk said:
If those reports are true that's seriously worrying. Appears the evacuation effort was started way too late - surely no way all the planned evacuees can be transported now. Not to mention our soldiers - I hope there is a damn robust backup plan for getting them out if the airport is lost.
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Depends if the Taliban are going to go along with US pleas or not I guess. Seeing mixed reports but Kabul seems to be in chaos none the less and given the sheer amount of NATO nations heavy lift aircraft up tonight I'm guessing they are expecting it to fall in hours not days.
 
It is taking off now with no destination. Haven't seen any other civilians flights there for 40+ minutes.

EDIT: Now has a destination in Iran.
 
Rroff said:
Depends if the Taliban are going to go along with US pleas or not I guess. Seeing mixed reports but Kabul seems to be in chaos none the less and given the sheer amount of NATO nations heavy lift aircraft up tonight I'm guessing they are expecting it to fall in hours not days.
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Fingers crossed then I guess... It would make sense for the Taliban to listen to the US and at least let them leave safely so as not to spark any last minute air strikes etc I guess, but in the fast moving situation on the ground with zealous field commanders moving their troops in.... Hope they can all get out of there ASAP.
 
GreatAuk said:
Fingers crossed then I guess... It would make sense for the Taliban to listen to the US and at least let them leave safely so as not to spark any last minute air strikes etc I guess, but in the fast moving situation on the ground with zealous field commanders moving their troops in.... Hope they can all get out of there ASAP.
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The Taliban have already said they aren't going to attack the embassy, they could be lying of course, but it's not in their interest to attack.

Edit: AC-130 gunship now over Dubai.
 
Longbow said:
The Taliban have already said they aren't going to attack the embassy, they could be lying of course, but it's not in their interest to attack.
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Not in their interest - but they've not exactly been keeping that much to their side of the bargain. If they do push into Kabul in the next 3 days or less things are definitely gonna get messy.
 
Seem to be quite a few flights with an 'N/A' destination near Afghanistan based on flight radar 24 atm, as well a few actually listing Kabul as the destination... Don't know if that's normal or not, but guessing they may be short notice flights to Kabul...

Wonder if there's very recently been a step change in how quickly they're trying to get people out. But with fighters around the city I wonder how much longer civilian aircraft will want to be flying in for...
 
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THY97E headed over but taking its time - probably assessing situation on the ground - would have thought they'd turned about by now if in regular holding pattern.

EDIT: Looks like they did just go around to land.

Unless the updates aren't reliable.

Increasingly looking like Saigon all over again :s
 
Rroff said:
THY97E headed over but taking its time - probably assessing situation on the ground - would have thought they'd turned about by now if in regular holding pattern.

EDIT: Looks like they did just go around to land.
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Yeah they flew over the airport whilst still at some 25,000 ft or whatever it was.

Flying over again now and still at 6,000 ft, probably going to fly around again and land east.

Edit: It's not very accurate, they've landed.
 
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