Afghan ’stowaways fall to death’ after clinging to plane as thousands flee Taliban

HORROR footage appears to show stowaways fleeing the Taliban falling to their deaths from a plane taking off from Kabul airport. Thousands of desperate Afghans have massed at the airport in a frantic bid to get out of Afghanistan after the fanatics stormed the capital. The stampede at Kabul Airport has already left five people dead with more people clambering over walls to get in. In chaotic scenes echoing the fall of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam war, petrified men, women and children were filmed trying to get on aircraft after the Taliban stormed the capital. With civilian flights suspended, many turned US Air Force aircraft to try get out of the country. Harrowing video shows two stowaways falling several hundred feet to their deaths after being thrown from a C-17 transport aircraft taking off from Kabul airport. Separate footage shows Afghans running alongside a C-17 as it prepares to take off with around a dozen holding on to the wheel wheel bay. At one stage US Apache helicopter gunships were