I’ll tell you what really happened to the Italian plane in Kabul. Speak Giannini (Il Giornale)
Is the report by the reports about the shooting of the Italian plane from Kabul credible? Here is the testimony of Chiara Giannini, correspondent of the Giornale aboard the C-130
For today, Friday 27 August, the last Italian air bridge between Kabul and Rome is scheduled for the evacuation of civilians after the Taliban conquest of Afghanistan.
Yesterday afternoon – the day of the attack claimed by ISIS-K , which caused the death of more than eighty people – there were shots in the airport area shortly after the take-off of a C-130 of the Italian Air Force , which carried journalists and 98 Afghan civilians.
THE OFFICIAL VERSION
The Agi had written that it was not clear whether the shots were aimed at the plane, and that the pilot of the C130 had carried out an evasive maneuver to secure the vehicle from shots and any missiles. For Ansa , which reported the statements of the Italian intelligence , the shots – "machine guns" – were not directed towards the Italian plane, but had been fired by Afghan troops to disperse the crowd near the airport.
THE REJECTION OF RAINERI (THE SHEET)
This morning, however, Daniele Raineri, a journalist from Il Foglio sent to Afghanistan, wrote on his Facebook page that "the woman who piloted the Italian C-130 confirms the attack: 'They aimed at us and they shot us'".
THE TESTIMONY OF GIANNINI (THE NEWSPAPER)
Already on Thursday evening the journalist Chiara Giannini wrote on her Facebook profile that “the Taliban fired on our plane as we flew over the mountains above Kabul. Someone from Italy mistakenly said they shot to disperse the crowd. I was in the cockpit with the pilots and I can tell you everything ”.
“They can say what they want. I was aboard the C-130, in the cabin with the pilots. They shot us twice and it was only thanks to the riders that we were saved ”, added Giannini in a second post. “Evidently, Intelligence has an interest in saying more. We had taken off a long time ago, flying over the mountains. In the picture my hand, I got hurt as the plane went down. By the way: they quarantined me for 10 days. Anyone who writes from Italy and tries to falsify it does not know! ”.
VIDEO
In a later video, Giannini reconstructed his experience from the cockpit of the C-130 in greater detail. He said that after about 10 minutes of flying and a distance of 60-70 kilometers from Kabul airport, during take-off, “I started hearing 'They're taking us, they're taking us' and the plane crashed. The pilot made, together with the other two, a maneuver to avoid something that was hitting us […]. You could see the flashes of these shots. They said it was a short weapon. We were, at that moment, in front of the mountains of Kabul […], we were not above the airport ”.
“Someone said they were shots that the Taliban fired to disperse the crowd. They can say what they want. I was present, I was in the cockpit […]. In the leap we made three times – the last one was terrible, we crashed, I thought the plane was crashing ”.
“You have to explain to me how it is possible that a shot fired at 60-70 kilometers hits the Kabul airport. The pilots know this well, the Air Force knows it well, which has spread a very general note, the intelligence knows it well, which obviously has an interest in getting another message across ”.
“I guarantee you that the weapons, short or long, were aimed at our plane […]. The pilot made the maneuver twice to avoid the blows. For me the intelligence, the ministers, can say what they want. I know what I have heard and what I have seen. The shots are obviously not seen ”.
From the subsequent inspection of the plane, Giannini said, no signs of blows emerged. “Fortunately he was not impressed, thanks to the preparation of the drivers”. “If they had fired shots to disperse the crowd, they would have fired them at the moment of the first leg of take-off; the shots came when we had taken off for more than ten minutes ”.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/aereo-italiano-kabul-spari-chiara-giannini/ on Fri, 27 Aug 2021 09:33:57 +0000.