Afghan stowaway ’trapped in landing gear’ of US plane after jumping on wheels to flee Taliban

SHOCKING video appears to show a stowaway trapped in the landing gear of a US plane after jumping on the wheels to flee the Taliban. Several Afghans were seen jumping onto the wheels of the C-17 as it prepared to take off from Kabul airport and three fell hundreds of feet to their deaths. In the footage - some of which The Sun has chosen not to show due to its distressing nature - the man can be seen hanging from the side of the plane and it was reported the crew found a body in the landing gear. It appears the man became trapped in a panel that is part of the landing gear mechanism and which closes when the wheels are retracted. The discovery was made when the crew struggled to close the landing gear and then made an emergency landing in a third country, the Washington Post reports. In another video, a group of men can be seen riding on top of the wheel bay as the plane taxis along the runway. It’s unclear if the person taking the footage managed to get off or be blown off before it became airborne. A