Horror footage appears to show stowaways falling to death after clinging to outside of plane as thousands flee Taliban

 HARROWING video shows two stowaways falling to their deaths after being thrown from a transport aircraft taking off from Kabul airport.

The two fell several hundred feet from the C-17 transport plane as thousands of desperate Afghans try get out of the country after the Taliban victory.

What appears to be two stowaways falling from a C-17 leaving Kabul
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What appears to be two stowaways falling from a C-17 leaving KabulCredit: Jam Press
Afghans running along side a C-17 plane preparing to take off
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Afghans running along side a C-17 plane preparing to take off
Some can be seen clinging onto the wheel bay
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Some can be seen clinging onto the wheel bay

The stampede at Kabul Airport has already left five people dead with more people clambering over walls to get in.

In chaotic scenes echoing the fall of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam war, petrified men, women and children were filmed trying to get on aircraft after the Taliban stormed the capital.

With civilian flights suspended, many turned US Air Force aircraft to try get out of the country.

Harrowing video shows two stowaways falling several hundred feet to their deaths after being thrown from a C-17 transport aircraft taking off from Kabul airport.

Separate footage shows Afghans running alongside a C-17 as it prepares to take off with around a dozen holding on to the wheel bay.

At one stage US Apache helicopter gunships were brought in to clear a path for the transport planes, swooping low to disperse people massed on the runway.

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