Mercy Flight Was Half Empty

Flight logs show the Department of National Defence flew half-empty mercy flights out of Kabul for days before the city fell to the Taliban, trapping thousands of Canadians and Afghan allies. The department in a newly-disclosed memo said it flew with empty seats in part because it wanted to conserve fuel: “It was very obvious the city was coming under siege.”

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