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Families forever scarred 4 years on from Kabul plane deaths

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The day after the Taliban stormed into the Afghan capital in August 2021, Afghans desperate to evacuate clung to the fuselage of a departing American plane at Kabul airport -- only to fall to their deaths.

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Families forever scarred 4 years on from Kabul plane deaths

The day after the Taliban stormed into the Afghan capital in August 2021, Afghans desperate to evacuate clung to the fuselage of a departing American plane at Kabul airport -- only to fall to their deaths.

The images have gone around the world: hundreds of people run next to a military plane about to take off and some cling to it. Other videos show silhouettes detaching from the C-17, before sinking into the air. One was Shafiullah Hotak's. At 18 years old

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KULR-TV broke the news in Billings, United States on Tuesday, August 12, 2025.
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