C-17

C17 English Noun C-17 en aircraft military en w:Boeing C-17 Globemaster III a military transport aircraft. en Oren Liebermann CENTCOM disputes Air Force account of attempted hijacking at Kabul airport during Afghanistan evacuation w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/14/politics/afghanistan-withdrawal-kabul-airport-attempted-hijacking/index.html 2021-10-14 During the evacuation operation, as US Air Force C-17s began steadily arriving at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Duncan wrote that airmen from the personnel recovery task force began tracking passengers departing the airport. In describing the frenetic scene at the airport, Duncan writes that, moments after a C-17 cargo aircraft took off with Afghans clinging to its side, two of the Wing’s HC-130J combat rescue aircraft took off with barely any runway to spare, skimming 10 feet above the heads of the crowd that had swarmed the airport during the evacuation efforts. https://web.archive.org/web/20260403013302/https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/14/politics/afghanistan-withdrawal-kabul-airport-attempted-hijacking/index.html 3 April 2026