(CNN) – An Afghan mother gave birth to a girl just after landing at Ramstein Air Base (Germany) on Saturday aboard a US military evacuation flight, the US Air Force reported on its social media.
In a Twitter thread this Sunday, the US Air Mobility Command said the woman went into labor aboard a C-17 transport plane during the second leg of her journey fleeing the Taliban seizure of power in Afghanistan. The flight was made from a base of operations in the Middle East to the large American air base in Germany.
Flying at a Lower Altitude to Save the Life of Afghanistan’s Woman
The US Air Force said the mother began to have complications while the aircraft was at its flying altitude, normally above 8,534 meters, due to the lower air pressure in the plane.
“The aircraft commander decided to descend in altitude to increase the air pressure in the aircraft, which helped stabilize and save the life of the mother,” said the tweet, which was sent from the official account of the Air Mobility Command. from the United States.
Once the plane was grounded at Ramstein Base, personnel from the 86th Air Force Medical Group assisted in the delivery of the baby in the cargo bay of the C-17, the tweet said. The mother and baby were transferred to a nearby medical center where they are in good condition.
Base in Germany, key point for evacuees from Afghanistan
Ramstein Air Base has become a key transit point for evacuees from Afghanistan.
General Hank Taylor told reporters during a briefing at the Pentagon on Saturday that the C-17s were moving evacuees from an air base in Qatar to Germany to ease the backlog of people at the Qatar base, where many flights coming from end. straight from Kabul.
On Friday, US Army evacuation flights from the Afghan capital were interrupted for nearly eight hours because the waiting area at the US military base in Qatar was full, authorities reported.
Brigadier General Josh Olson told CNN on Saturday that the Ramstein base has capacity for 5,000 people, but that the additional facilities being built should be able to accommodate 7,500 by Sunday afternoon.
Thousands of people evacuated
Olson said he expects evacuees to stay between 48 and 72 hours at the base. The US agreement with Germany states that they should not stay for more than 10 days, he added.
Since the end of July, 22,000 people have been evacuated, General Taylor said. Of these, 17,000 have been evacuated since August 14.
On Friday, the Air Force said one of its C-17 flights from Afghanistan set a record for the number of people carried aboard the aircraft.
An Aug. 15 flight, which the Air Force originally said was carrying 640 people, actually had 823 on board, the Air Mobility Command said in a tweet. The initial count did not include 183 children on board the aircraft.
CNN’s Atika Shubert and Ellie Kaufman contributed to this report.
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