{"id":8413,"date":"2021-08-25T08:14:02","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T11:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/?p=8413"},"modified":"2021-08-25T08:14:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T11:14:02","slug":"record-para-el-c17-que-evacua-un-total-de-823-pasajeros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/?p=8413","title":{"rendered":"R\u00e9cord para el C17\u00a0que evacua un total de 823 pasajeros"},"content":{"rendered":"

La capacidad m\u00e1xima oficial de pasajeros de un C-17A, cuando se utilizan asientos en tarimas fijas al piso de la bodega de carga y otros montados en las paredes interiores, es de solo 134. En vuelos de evacuaci\u00f3n anteriores se ha visto a m\u00e1s personas cargadas en Globemaster III, utilizando el “piso de carga” tambi\u00e9n en el Reach 871, incluido un vuelo en 2013 que llev\u00f3 a 670 personas a un lugar seguro despu\u00e9s de que el tif\u00f3n Haiyan azotara Filipinas.\u00a0Usado como avi\u00f3n de transporte estrat\u00e9gico r\u00e1pido de tropas y suministros para realizar misiones de transporte t\u00e1ctico, evacuaci\u00f3n m\u00e9dica, despliegue de tropas aerotransportadas y lanzamiento de paracaidistas\u00a0(transporta a 102 paracaidistas totalmente equipados). El C-17 Globemaster III es el avi\u00f3n de carga militar por excelencia de\u00a0los Estados Unidos, desarrollado por McDonnell Douglas entre las d\u00e9cadas de los ochenta, para la Fuerza A\u00e9rea de Estados Unidos (USAF).<\/p>\n

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The U.S. Air Force has corrected the record about just how many Afghan evacuees a heroic aircrew out of Dover Air Force Base in Delaware packed onto their C-17A Globemaster III in Kabul on Sunday night. The total number of passengers wasn’t 800, as\u00a0The War Zone<\/em>\u00a0was first to report<\/a>\u00a0based on recorded radio communications, it was\u00a0even\u00a0<\/em>more<\/em>\u00a0than that. The Air Force says 823 were actually on that plane, which used the callsign Reach 871, and that this is the largest evacuation flight the type has ever flown.<\/p>\n

The Air Force’s Air Mobility Command (AMC) issued the correction today. The service had earlier confirmed various details about the heavily laden flight, but had said that there\u00a0were only 640 passengers<\/a>\u00a0on board when it left Afghanistan. However, this figure did not include more than 180 small children who rode on their parents’ laps, many of whom are clearly visible in a picture that subsequently emerged of Reach 871’s jam-packed cargo bay.<\/p>\n

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A picture of Afghan evacuees inside Reach 871’s main cargo bay, with a number of children on laps clearly visible.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“The initial count of 640 inadvertently included only adults. 183 children were also aboard,” according to posts on AMC’s official Twitter account. “The original number was based on how many bus seats were filled departing the aircraft and didn\u2019t account for the number of children in laps.”<\/p>\n

This revised figure aligns\u00a0with the audio recordings<\/a>\u00a0of conversations between Reach 871’s crew and other Air Force personnel, likely conducted via satellite radio, that had previously emerged and that you can listen to below. “800 people on your jet?! Holy… Holy cow… Ok…,” a person can be heard saying at one point after getting the estimated headcount from an individual on the C-17A.<\/p>\n