9/11 has a fallen man, Kabul 2021 may always be remembered by “falling men”, two young Afghanistan desperate for freedom and life adhering to the plane that has taken off and finally dropped hundreds of feet under their death.
In videos that have now been circulated throughout the world, men and women who are surprised on the ground can be heard sending prayers to God.
Ajay Chettri from Dehradun is one of them.
He watched the nightmare open right before his eyes.
Chhetri, the former Army army who was evacuated from Afghanistan on August 17 on the Indian Air Force (IAF), said on Friday that he was traumatized by what he saw at Kabul Airport because he panicked to rush away the city was his home for more than A decade.
On August 16, after the arrest of the Taliban Afghan capital, Chhetri, who worked as a security officer there, had “packed his life” in Kabul and like hundreds of others reached the airport.
“I was in a military airbase next to the airport when I heard gunshots.
The bullet flew around.
It is a total chaos.
But it’s not the worst part,” Chhetri said, now in Dehradun with his family.
“What I will never forget is how people run on the basis beside the US cargo plane that took off, brought hundreds of Afghans.
One of the planes had left the ground but people still cling to their wheels.
A little later, I saw two bodies falling from the sky.
It was terrible and I couldn’t take it anymore, “Chhetri said.
The 60-year-old child, who was accompanied by his brother-in-law, Savita Shahi, decided to return from the airport and take refuge in the NATO camp, a few meters away.
Shahi, who worked as an assistant US medical team in Kabul, contacted the Indian Embassy in Afghanistan and found that the IAF aircraft were scheduled to leave the city the following day with the embassy diplomats and staff.
“At our request, embassy officials agreed to adjust five of us at home flights, but two Indians joined us and they were also accommodated in rescue flights,” he said.
Their part to India is secured but reaches the airport kabul while avoiding the Taliban is a challenge and risk.
Group seven left the camp at around 3:30 a.m.
at night.
“We walked to the airport, prayed that no one would stop us.
The situation was a little better on that day because there were fewer people at the airport.
Still, we were very tense until we saw an IAF flight in Kabul around 6am,” Shahi said .