Timeline for Did the last US plane to leave Afghanistan have support from the control tower?
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| Oct 18 at 23:35 | vote | accept | uhoh | ||
| Sep 7, 2021 at 12:58 | history | edited | Jpe61 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added link to article about last hours of operation
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| Sep 7, 2021 at 8:36 | comment | added | Jpe61 | Been forgetting this... when I get on a proper device I will integrate. | |
| Sep 6, 2021 at 22:50 | comment | added | uhoh | @Jpe61 I may post it as a supplementary answer then accept yours if you decide not to include this (or a better source for the same info) in your answer, but I think it's better if you can integrate this information into yours (if you so choose). | |
| Sep 3, 2021 at 13:21 | comment | added | Jpe61 | I'll check that out asap. | |
| Sep 3, 2021 at 13:16 | comment | added | uhoh | "'Once all aircraft reported in to me that they were ready to go, Gen. Donahue gave me the thumbs up. We issued the 'flush the force' call and that was our indication for all of us to taxi together to the end of the runway,' Pelbath said. 'And then all five aircraft departed in a 30-second sequence, so we had all aircraft off the deck in under three minutes.'" | |
| Sep 3, 2021 at 13:15 | comment | added | uhoh | This may be worth considering adding, from CNN's Air Force commander details final hours before last US planes left Afghanistan "Pelbath also detailed the orders he gave when the final evacuation mission was set to be completed, saying that when he got the OK from Maj. Gen. Chris Donahue, the commander of the 82nd Airborne Division, he gave the order 'clamshell,' for the five planes to close up and begin taxiing the runway in Kabul. | |
| Sep 1, 2021 at 17:42 | comment | added | rtaft | News source indicating the airport is not running and they are reaching out to other countries to get the airport functioning again: aljazeera.com/economy/2021/8/31/… | |
| Aug 31, 2021 at 21:28 | comment | added | Arkhem | The Afghanistan FIR was uncontrolled so a free-for-all. OAKB was procedural and involved joining the stack and crews passing distances and other relevant info to the Tactical ATCers on the ground who were managing the running order. | |
| Aug 31, 2021 at 20:28 | comment | added | Jpe61 | I'm inclined to concur with that comment, as the civilians were most likely preoccupied with the safety of themselves and their families (?). Some kind of ATC service was absolutely necessary as the number of daily operations was quite high. | |
| Aug 31, 2021 at 19:10 | comment | added | randomhead | A comment here claims that the civilian contractors left relatively early and military controllers were working out of a tent on the field. And of course the Internet is always accurate. | |
| S Aug 31, 2021 at 15:28 | history | suggested | Kirk Woll | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Fix typos and incorrect word (seized instead of ceased)
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| Aug 31, 2021 at 15:07 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Aug 31, 2021 at 14:28 | comment | added | Olaf | This.. it was probably part of a larger operation which were directed by controllers aboard control-aircraft like Sentries or E-3 AWACS. | |
| Aug 31, 2021 at 13:18 | history | answered | Jpe61 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |