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TIL about Airstan Incident, In 1995 the Taliban used their MiG fighter jet to force a Russian IL-76 cargo plane to land at Kandahar Air Field. After a year of captivity, the crew tricked the Taliban into performing a routine maintenance on the plane, and then flew away, under fire, to the UAE.

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