CNN CNN Newsroom With Poppy Harlow and Jim Sciutto September 28, 2021 13:51:00
124,000. we planned to move between 5,000 and 9,000 people per day. on average they moved slightly between 7,000 per day. on military aircraft alone we flew more than 847 sorties, averaging nearly 23 per day. at the height of this operation, an aircraft was taking off every 45 minutes. and not a single sortie was missed for maintenance, fuel, or logistical problems. it was the largest airlift conducted in u.s. history and it feels executed in 17 days. was it perfect? of course not. we moves do many people so quickly out of kabul we ran into capacity and screening problems at intermediate stagi...