A defence official told military news site Defense One, which obtained the image. "Approximately 640 Afghan civilians disembarked the aircraft when it arrived at its destination. However, according to Boeing, a C-17's passenger carrying capacity is officially 134 paratroopers, 80 on 8 pallets, plus 54 passengers on sidewall seats."
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Many of the Afghans climbed aboard the plane via a half-open ramp …with one of the highest number of passengers ever flown on such an aircraft, US defence and security news site Defense One reported.
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Chaos erupted at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul on Sunday and Monday, as US armed forces shut down the airport to commercial flights to continue evacuating government personnel and US allies. … civilian Afghans wait for indefinitely suspended flights to return.
"I don't have any additional information about that particular aircraft in that particular flight. It's obviously difficult from 8000 miles away to have perfect knowledge about everything that's going on the ground over there." A spokesman of the Defense Department in US said.
Q1: How many people has this C17 been overloaded ?
Q2: How did these Afghans get on the aircraft ?
（答案见下期）
