New video shows the chaos that swept the Kabul airport in Afghanistan from the perspective of an American soldier on the ground.
A new video has emerged showing the wider chaos that swept the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan on Monday from the perspective of an American soldier on the ground. From behind the turret of an M240 medium machine gun atop a mine-resistant ambush-protected (MRAP) vehicle, a soldier panned a camera around to show hundreds of Afghans lining the airport runway before two Apache helicopters flew low in an effort to clear the runway for the takeoff of Air Force cargo plane. Since then, thousands of soldiers and Marines have deployed to the airport and secured the perimeter. But the 48-second clip gives a broader view of what happened in the moments before other videos captured a massive C-17 Globemaster II lumbering down the tarmac as a crowd of Afghans ran alongside it, some of whom clung to the side of the aircraft and later fell to their deaths after takeoff. Thousands of Afghans moved toward the airport after the Taliban seized Kabul on Sunday.
