Afghanistan: the drama of the exodus, in 640 on the American C-17

An image released by the American military and relaunched by the Defense One website goes around the world and summarizes the drama of the exodus from Kabul: about 640 Afghans piled into a transport plane, a C-17 Globemaster II, which has 154 people as a maximum capacity. The photo was taken on Sunday, in the midst of the great escape from the capital just conquered by the Taliban. Despite the overcrowding, "the crew decided to leave anyway", a US military source told Defense One, and "about 640 Afghan civilians disembarked when the plane reached its destination". Previously, videos of the overcrowded plane - the flight was named Reach 871 and had as its destination the US Air Force base Al Udeid in Qatar - had already circulated on social networks.Defense One also released a transcript of a radio conversation between an officer and an interlocutor on the plane. "Okay, how many people do you think there are on your plane? ... 800?", And then comments with a curse.