MOOSE 31 and REACH835 Orbiting West of Doha.

https://fr24.com/MOOSE31/28e1eb63

https://fr24.com/RCH835/28e1e24b

Dutch Ministry of Defence chartered Freebird Airlines (FHY)to transport evacués from ISB to AMS via TZX

Recent flights by TC-FBR A320 in local time

23 Aug 2021 Trabzon (TZX) - Amsterdam (AMS) FH969 4:06 — 12:38 Landed 15:44
23 Aug 2021 Islamabad (ISB) - Trabzon (TZX) FH969 5:03 — 08:28 Landed 11:31
22 Aug 2021 Trabzon (TZX) - Islamabad (ISB) FH968 4:22 — 23:07 Landed 05:29
22 Aug 2021 Amsterdam (AMS)- Trabzon (TZX) FH966 3:39 — 17:10 Landed 21:49
22 Aug 2021 Trabzon (TZX) - Amsterdam (AMS) FH965 4:11 — 12:02 Landed 15:13
21 Aug 2021 Trabzon (TZX) Islamabad (ISB) FH964 4:20 — 23:57 Landed 06:17
21 Aug 2021 Amsterdam (AMS) Trabzon (TZX) FH962 3:33 — 18:13 Landed 22:46
21 Aug 2021 Trabzon (TZX) Amsterdam (AMS) FH961 4:10 — 12:41 Landed 15:51
21 Aug 2021 Islamabad (ISB) Trabzon (TZX) FH961 4:59 — 08:29 Landed 11:28
21 Aug 2021 Antalya (AYT) Islamabad (ISB) FH960 5:01 — 00:02 Landed 07:03

Ticker on CNN says more than 30 C17's are slated to head to Kabul in the next 24 hours. I'm not sure if that's 30 individual aircraft, or 30 movements.. The way it was worded is how I wrote it.. I guess that sounds like individual aircraft? I don't really want to go hunt for flights and see how many unique aircraft have been flying..

jikei wrote:

Ticker on CNN says more than 30 C17's are slated to head to Kabul in the next 24 hours. I'm not sure if that's 30 individual aircraft, or 30 movements.. The way it was worded is how I wrote it.. I guess that sounds like individual aircraft? I don't really want to go hunt for flights and see how many unique aircraft have been flying..

Jeez...thats a lot of airplanes. Are they gonna evacuate the entire metropoltian area of Kabul?

FlyingHonu001 wrote:

jikei wrote:

Ticker on CNN says more than 30 C17's are slated to head to Kabul in the next 24 hours. I'm not sure if that's 30 individual aircraft, or 30 movements.. The way it was worded is how I wrote it.. I guess that sounds like individual aircraft? I don't really want to go hunt for flights and see how many unique aircraft have been flying..

Jeez...thats a lot of airplanes. Are they gonna evacuate the entire metropoltian area of Kabul?

as much as they can kabul is full of western sympathizers and the reality is more people getting out the better

jikei wrote:

Ticker on CNN says more than 30 C17's are slated to head to Kabul in the next 24 hours. I'm not sure if that's 30 individual aircraft, or 30 movements.. The way it was worded is how I wrote it.. I guess that sounds like individual aircraft? I don't really want to go hunt for flights and see how many unique aircraft have been flying..

Taliban have declared they want the evac completed by 31 Aug.After that, it will be open season on foreigners.

Outgoing (in air)
MOOSE55 USAF C17 99-0169

Incoming (in air)
MOOSE53 USAF C17 07-7172

On the ground (presumably to leave soon) with transponders on:
NAG83XT RAF C17 ZZ171 (looks to be taxing as I post)
MOOSE54 USAF C17 07-7177
RCH815 USAF C17 08-8190

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Kam AIr KMF4405 YA-KMU popped on

FlyingElvii wrote:

jikei wrote:

Ticker on CNN says more than 30 C17's are slated to head to Kabul in the next 24 hours. I'm not sure if that's 30 individual aircraft, or 30 movements.. The way it was worded is how I wrote it.. I guess that sounds like individual aircraft? I don't really want to go hunt for flights and see how many unique aircraft have been flying..

Taliban have declared they want the evac completed by 31 Aug.After that, it will be open season on foreigners.

Yah that would work out well for them

Not Sure if this thread is just to share movements but this popped up into my news feed. 37k moved in a week and looks like they moved close to 19,000 in 24 hours. Absolutely incredible scale.

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5690 ... fghanistan

jikei wrote:

Outgoing (in air)
MOOSE55 USAF C17 99-0169

Incoming (in air)
MOOSE53 USAF C17 07-7172

On the ground (presumably to leave soon) with transponders on:
NAG83XT RAF C17 ZZ171 (looks to be taxing as I post)
MOOSE54 USAF C17 07-7177
RCH815 USAF C17 08-8190

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Kam AIr KMF4405 YA-KMU popped on

The Kam air A343 is being flown out of there. It’s heading south west from Kabul.

A DAT A320 (OY-JRK) & A321 (OY-RUU) are on approach to ISB from Billund (with a stop in TBS). No doubt to evac folks to Scandinavia.

Global X A321 GXA107 / N277X is en route from Dushanbe, Tajikistan to Kabul.

Army Gen. Stephen Lyons, Commander of U.S. Transportation Command was asked how many aircraft are being used. He replied "the air component has well over 200 aircraft" that are being used in some fashion to help.

-edit-

not long after the Global X 321 landed in Kabul, transponder for their A320 popped on.
Global X A320 GXA106 / N276GX looks to depart Kabul soon.

Global X also tweeted a photo showing people boarding, and a statement directing inquires to be directed to the State Department.
https://twitter.com/globalxairlines/sta ... 0694661120

MRS3051 just landed from Baghdad at Dulles. This couldn't be a CRAF charter since Egyptair is not US airline. Perhaps a separate DOD charter?

capitalflyer wrote:

MRS3051 just landed from Baghdad at Dulles. This couldn't be a CRAF charter since Egyptair is not US airline. Perhaps a separate DOD charter?

MRS3051 has flown that route a few other times before all of this started, so probably unrelated.

Anyone got an idea where GXA106 could be headed?
https://www.flightradar24.com/multiview/28e36800

I think they are very likely coming from the huge US Air Base at Ramstein not from Zweibrücken which is closed now as a military airfield (not for civil traffic).

https://www.flightradar24.com/KMF4405/28e31967

YA-KMU is landing at Abu Dhabi

Did not go to the terminal. it is on the northside. Based on googlemaps, this area seems to be all military.

lot of traffic today!

Why don't KLM take the northern route like UA898 for their flights to Delhi? I see KL872 takes the long way around Israel and Saudi Arabia, they could save an hour going the northernly route via Tajikistana nd Ujbekistan.

sabby wrote:

Why don't KLM take the northern route like UA898 for their flights to Delhi? I see KL872 takes the long way around Israel and Saudi Arabia, they could save an hour going the northernly route via Tajikistana nd Ujbekistan.

On that note, why do most airlines avoid Israeli airspace? Why not also cut through it and Jordan?

TSA125 wrote:

sabby wrote:

Why don't KLM take the northern route like UA898 for their flights to Delhi? I see KL872 takes the long way around Israel and Saudi Arabia, they could save an hour going the northernly route via Tajikistana nd Ujbekistan.

On that note, why do most airlines avoid Israeli airspace? Why not also cut through it and Jordan?

Will the countries that don’t recognize Israel make radar handoffs with them?

No, you will not be allowed entry from Israel by the non-recognizing country. Just as you cannot file a flight plan from KSA to Israel, has to go thru a third country and you have to land at that third country.

Overflying Israel, like overflying any country is subject to their rules and permits. Israeli overflights aren’t granted on a moment’s notice and subject to their security procedures.

Senior State Department Official says that several thousand US Citizens still remain in Afghanistan, and that the US Military needs a decision from the President on any extension of mission in Kabul by Tuesday.
Should be an interesting next few days...

The E-11 is doing circles around Bagram vicinity...

Looks like there's a TON of activity right now..

Outbound from Kabul:
RCH845 00-0171 C17
RCH840 97-0045 C17
(soon to be outbound)
MOOSE48 06-6164 C17
MOOSE44 02-1105 C17
MOOSE49 04-4132 C17

Inbound to Kabul:
MOOSE56 07-7173 C17
RCH432 01-0193 C17
Spain A400 NAG11FN
RCH857 90-0534 C17
MOOSE40 02-1108 C17

Don't know if it's going to Kabul, but a Qatar C17 A7-MAP LHOB257 looks to be heading in the direction of Kabul..and a second Qater C17 A7-MAM LHOB242 not far behind.

Taliban already said no to any extension or “consequences”.

jikei wrote:

737/BBJ no registration just landed in Kabul. Weird route from Amman as mentioned in post #621 so likely same aircraft.

MOOSE50 USAF C17 04-4137 inbound and about to land in Kabul

All these flights to and from Amman ADJ are N737AT as Hillwood 228.

RobK wrote:

jikei wrote:

737/BBJ no registration just landed in Kabul. Weird route from Amman as mentioned in post #621 so likely same aircraft.

MOOSE50 USAF C17 04-4137 inbound and about to land in Kabul

All these flights to and from Amman ADJ are N737AT as Hillwood 228.

That's what I thought.. thanks

bhxdtw wrote:

A Safe Air 727 looks to be crossing through afghan airspace, reg: 5Y-IRE.
Looks like it's headed from Muscat.
Prior flights look to have been some random movements with the transponder being turned on/off to and from Nairobi and then a Nairobi - Muscat Sector and now this route.

What's really interesting is it flew as far north as the Afghan/Tajik border and is now making a u turn and heading back south.. I have screen shots of this interesting movement.

Unlikely to be transponder being turned on and off. Coverage in those areas is already very patchy and old frames like 727s don't have full ADSB either.

RobK wrote:

bhxdtw wrote:

A Safe Air 727 looks to be crossing through afghan airspace, reg: 5Y-IRE.
Looks like it's headed from Muscat.
Prior flights look to have been some random movements with the transponder being turned on/off to and from Nairobi and then a Nairobi - Muscat Sector and now this route.

What's really interesting is it flew as far north as the Afghan/Tajik border and is now making a u turn and heading back south.. I have screen shots of this interesting movement.

Unlikely to be transponder being turned on and off. Coverage in those areas is already very patchy and old frames like 727s don't have full ADSB either.

Any airplane can have ADSB. We have dc3s with ADSB in America

bhxdtw wrote:

A Safe Air 727 looks to be crossing through afghan airspace, reg: 5Y-IRE.
Looks like it's headed from Muscat.
Prior flights look to have been some random movements with the transponder being turned on/off to and from Nairobi and then a Nairobi - Muscat Sector and now this route.

What's really interesting is it flew as far north as the Afghan/Tajik border and is now making a u turn and heading back south.. I have screen shots of this interesting movement.

You can play it back with this link - was watching him also - seems a bit dicey - it's a known cargo transport into war zones

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/airc ... e#28e42bc9

a small Bombardier is flying around:
https://fr24.com/28e47c61
Bombardier E-11A

A KAM Air A340 is waiting
https://fr24.com/KMF4415/28e473f3

Dutch Ministry of Defence also chartered Czech-based SmartWings to bring evacués out of ISB to AMS with a fuelstop via HRG

Flight QS4343 B738 Reg. OK-TVO

ISB - HRG leg - https://fr24.com/data/aircraft/ok-tvo#28e3470d

HRG - AMS leg - https://fr24.com/data/aircraft/ok-tvo#28e42a2b

NickLAX wrote:

bhxdtw wrote:

A Safe Air 727 looks to be crossing through afghan airspace, reg: 5Y-IRE.
Looks like it's headed from Muscat.
Prior flights look to have been some random movements with the transponder being turned on/off to and from Nairobi and then a Nairobi - Muscat Sector and now this route.

What's really interesting is it flew as far north as the Afghan/Tajik border and is now making a u turn and heading back south.. I have screen shots of this interesting movement.

You can play it back with this link - was watching him also - seems a bit dicey - it's a known cargo transport into war zones

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/airc ... e#28e42bc9

Find it VERY hard to believe they were actually aiming for Kulob. There is nothing there!! Check the orbits before entering Tajik Airspace... 10-1 they didn't check their NOTAMS, Probably headed for Dushanbe, and didn't see that the only runway there is closed daily from 0300-1400 UTC. They landed at Kulob at 0400Z.
UTDD/QMRLC/IV/NBO /A /000/999/3833N06850E
A) UTDD
B) 21/08/01 03:00 C) 21/09/01 14:00
D) DAILY 0300-1400
E) RWY 09/27 CLSD.

Currently watching a Sun Country B737, call sign CMB539 from Athens on final into Al Udeid. Interesting to see that there.

Another Kam Air A340, YA-KMH is showing up now at KBL.

mjgbtv wrote:

Another Kam Air A340, YA-KMH is showing up now at KBL.

And the one in Abu Dhabi is now taking off..

https://www.flightradar24.com/KMF4416/28e51df4

harleydriver wrote:

Currently watching a Sun Country B737, call sign CMB539 from Athens on final into Al Udeid. Interesting to see that there.

They've done international dod flights before and briefly served London commercially, it's definitely unusual, but not shocking. Looks like it's all hands on deck at this point.

melpax wrote:

mjgbtv wrote:

Another Kam Air A340, YA-KMH is showing up now at KBL.

And the one in Abu Dhabi is now taking off..

https://www.flightradar24.com/KMF4416/28e51df4

Finally did take off.

And it looks like YA-KMH has made its way over to the north side of the airport.

SAS is now upgauging one of their evacuation planes from A320neo to A330-300

(in Danish:)
https://insideflyer.dk/netop-nu-sas-sen ... islamabad/

Belgian A400M, did a stop over in LCA?

BAF654, Larnaca https://fr24.com/BAF654/28e5c84a



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More info (and photos) related to Swedish evacuations.

The C130s fly Islamabad-Kabul. The C17s from Heavy Airlift Wing at Papa in Hungary fly Tbilisi-Kabul, so they can keep the engines running and don’t need to refuel. From Islamabad and Tbilisi there are chartered flights to different destinations in Europe.

https://www.forsvarsmakten.se/sv/aktuellt/2021/08/luftbron-till-afghanistan-upprattad/

melpax wrote:

mjgbtv wrote:

Another Kam Air A340, YA-KMH is showing up now at KBL.

And the one in Abu Dhabi is now taking off..

https://www.flightradar24.com/KMF4416/28e51df4

And on its way back out from KBL again

https://fr24.com/KMF4411/28e697bc

Good to see the local heavy metal being put to use. The situation is desperate there now that the deadline will not be extended.

AA 9991 scheduled FRA-RMS-IAD

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/AAL9991

This article covers the Italian Air Force Aquila Omnia operation pretty well. Four C-130s (one C-130J and 3 longer C-130J-30s) are currently shuttling people from Kabul to Kuwait City where they are transferred to Italy on three KC-767s.

As per MoD Twitter page, more than 2100 civilians have already been evacuated from Kabul.

Cheers,
MN

Dutch Ministry of Defence released a short video of their evacuations ops, using C-130's and the KDC-10 transporter

https://twitter.com/Defensie/status/143 ... 51680?s=20

KAM Air A340 on the way from Abu Dhabi to Kabul?
https://fr24.com/KMF4420/28e7c427

Pakistan Air Force Gulfstream just left Dushanbe.
https://fr24.com/PAK3/28e7ec34

oschkosch wrote:

KAM Air A340 on the way from Abu Dhabi to Kabul?
https://fr24.com/KMF4420/28e7c427

And an interesting callsign as well...

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=43c5e1
RAF A400 ZM407 heading towards Afghanistan as NAG85XT, there was a USAF C-17 close by but i lost track of it.

Looks like the KAM Air A340 is being chartered by Glenn Beck's Nazarene Fund to help evacuate Afghan Christian converts. He just showed footage on his program from his people on the ground as they were boarding the aircraft.