CENTCOM disputes Air Force account of attempted hijacking at Kabul airport during Afghanistan evacuation
CNNWashington CNN — US Central Command, which oversaw the US evacuation from Afghanistan, disputed an Air Force account of an attempted hijacking of a commercial flight from Kabul international airport during the final weeks of the evacuation from the country. “I am unaware of any attempt to hijack a plane at Hamid Karzai International airport,” said US Central Command spokeswoman LT Josie Lynne Lenny in a statement Thursday afternoon. Ground traffic controllers diverted the plane to a safe location on the airfield where security forces boarded the plane and determined that there was no active attempt to hijack the aircraft.” The Air Force account which detailed an attempted hijacking of a commercial airliner was published Tuesday on the Air Force’s website and was written by Lt. Col. Kristen Duncan, a public affairs officer for the 23rd Wing, which deployed to Afghanistan this summer. During the evacuation operation, as US Air Force C-17s began steadily arriving at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Duncan wrote that airmen from the personnel recovery task force began tracking passengers departing the airport.
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