{"id":659111,"date":"2021-08-18T17:52:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T21:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=659111"},"modified":"2021-08-18T17:52:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T21:52:08","slug":"report-afghan-who-clung-to-u-s-evac-plane-fell-from-sky-was-a-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-afghan-who-clung-to-u-s-evac-plane-fell-from-sky-was-a-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Afghan Who Clung To U.S. Evac Plane, Fell From Sky, Was A Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-afghan-who-clung-to-u-s-evac-plane-fell-from-sky-was-a-child%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=659111&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234707431.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>An Afghan family has identified their son as one of the people who died at Kabul\u2019s international airport after falling from an evacuating U.S. military plane on Monday, according to a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/jg84gg\/afghan-fall-plane-kabul-teenager\"><span>VICE News<\/span><\/a><span> report. The son, whose real name was withheld, was only 17 years old.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The child, identified by the news outlet as Reza to protect his family, heard a rumor that the United States and Canada were going to take 20,000 people with them out of Kabul, his family told the news agency. So Reza and his younger brother, 16, left to the airport \u201cwithout telling anyone\u201d with the hope of fleeing the country \u2014 which was now in control of the Taliban.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cEveryone is trying to run away,\u201d an unnamed family member told Vice News for an article published Wednesday. \u201cIt is in fear of the Taliban, they are killing people. They have all left to the airport from lack of jobs and opportunity. They want to go abroad.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Scenes from the airport earlier this week went viral on social media, and one in particular \u2014 a video of two blips falling from an airborne plane hundreds if not thousands of feet from the ground \u2014 showed Reza in the distance falling from the sky.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Seven people in total died during the airport evacuation, including an unspecified number of Afghans who fell from an airplane, according to U.S. authorities, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/afghanistan-kabul-taliban-79d677c29b1e134437842217e469b481\"><span>reports<\/span><\/a><span> the Associated Press. One person\u2019s remains were found stuck in a plane\u2019s landing gear, although it\u2019s unclear whether that is the same plane from which Reza fell.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"7.2428571428571\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Afghanistan\u2019s tragedy right now in Kabul international airport: Afghan youth on the engine of American plane to leave the country. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CoTS8sq9c3\">pic.twitter.com\/CoTS8sq9c3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Muslim Shirzad (@MuslimShirzad) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MuslimShirzad\/status\/1427188130638139395?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"7.4048442906574\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Exclusive- A clear video (from other angle) of men falling from C-17. They were Clinging to some parts of the plane that took off from Kabul airport today. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Talibans?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Talibans<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Afghanistan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Afghanistan<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Afghanishtan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Afghanishtan<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CMNW5ngqrK\">pic.twitter.com\/CMNW5ngqrK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 A\u015bvaka \u2013 \u0622\u0633\u0648\u0627\u06a9\u0627 News Agency (@AsvakaNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AsvakaNews\/status\/1427206845706379266?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>After Reza fell to his death, witnesses recovered his body and that of another person who fell from the same plane. His family, not knowing where Reza or his brother were, traveled to the airport after calling his cell phone and getting a response from a stranger who had found it at the airport.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The family identified Reza\u2019s body after witnesses took it outside of the airport, reports VICE. \u201cHis legs and arms were gone. I brought him back myself,\u201d said the family member.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>His younger brother has not been found.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe are really upset that we\u2019ve lost two,\u201d a family member told VICE. \u201cWe\u2019ve found the body of one of them, but the other one is still missing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Afghan family has identified their son as one of the people who died at Kabul\u2019s international airport after falling from an evacuating U.S. military plane on Monday, according to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}