An Afghan mother gave birth to a child while on board a U.S. military aircraft carrying out evacuations.
The U.S. Air Mobility Command announced Saturday evening that the unidentified woman delivered a baby girl in the cargo bay shortly after the C-17 transport aircraft touched down at the Ramstein Air Base in Germany.
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During the flight, the aircraft commander descended in altitude after the woman began having complications with the delivery due to the lower air pressure in the aircraft. Both mother and child were transported to a nearby hospital following the birth and are in good condition.
Medical support personnel from the 86th Medical Group help an Afghan mother and family off a U.S. Air Force C-17, call sign Reach 828, moments after she delivered a child aboard the aircraft upon landing at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, Aug. 21. (cont..) pic.twitter.com/wqR9dFlW1o
— Air Mobility Command (@AirMobilityCmd) August 21, 2021
The evacuation flight took off from an intermediate staging base in the Middle East, Air Mobility Command said.
Gen. Hank Taylor explained during Saturday’s Pentagon briefing that the C-17s were transporting Afghan evacuees from an air base in Qatar to Germany to decrease the backlog at the Middle Eastern base. Many of the military flights out of Kabul, Afghanistan, have been to the Qatari base, though flights were temporarily stopped on Friday because the site was full.
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About 22,000 people have been evacuated from Afghanistan since the end of July amid the United States’s withdrawal. Troops may stay longer than previously expected given the circumstances and the Taliban’s subsequent takeover. Approximately 17,000 refugees have been evacuated since Aug. 14, Taylor said.
