One of the men who died falling from the underside of a US evacuation plane at Kabul airport has been identified as a 22-year-old dentist.
Fida Mohammad was one of three people who died plunging from the C-17 plane on August 16 as thousands rushed the airport runway desperate to escape the Taliban.
Father Painda confirmed his son's death, saying he may have tried to flee the country in search of a job to pay off a loan he took out to pay for his wedding last year.
Painda was the one who loaned him some of the $13,000 for the extravagant nuptials, and says he is now wracked with guilt over the thought that he may have inadvertently pressured his son into risking his life.
Fida Mohammad, 22, a dentist who owned a practice in Kabul and married last year, was one of three people who died falling from a US transport plane at Kabul airport
Father Painda (left) says he is wracked with guilt over the death, worrying that Fida was trying to escape the country to find a job and repay him a loan he took out for the wedding ceremony
Fida was one of three seen falling from the C-17 military transport - clinging to another man, Safiullah Hotak, as the pair plunged from the sky and landed on the roof of a house
Burying his head in his hands, Painda told AP that he spends hours imagining his son's final minutes.
It is thought that Fida was one of at least three people hiding in the wheel well of the military cargo plane as it took off that day.
Once in the air the pilot retracted the wheels, leaving those clinging on with only two choices - hold on and be crushed to death, or let go and fall.
Painda said he fixates on the fear his son must have felt as the earth below him began to disappear and the wheels swung in, forcing him to let go.
He spends his time rewatching videos of Fida dancing at his wedding. Tears in his eyes, he told AP: 'He was a gift from God and now God has taken him back.'
Fida's body was later found on the roof of a home in Kabul, alongside the body of a second man identified locally as Safiullah Hotak, a doctor.
It is thought the two were clinging to each-other as they fell, explaining why they landed simultaneously.
Another body which has yet to be identified is thought to have fallen elsewhere in the city, while more human remains were then found in the wheel-well of the transport plane after it landed in Qatar.
The US has yet to confirm how many bodies were caught in the wheels, but disturbing video showed at least one pair of legs hanging from the side of a jet.
Abdullah Waiz is the owner of the house where Fida and Safiullah's bodies were found, and told AP he was asleep at the time they landed.
He was woken by a 'powerful' noise and initially thought it was an explosion, before coming outside to find neighbours pointing up at the corner of his roof.
Waiz pointed AP to the spot - the concrete still stained with blood - and explained how he scooped the remains up on a cloth and carried them to a nearby mosque.
One body was identified as Fida because of a note with his father's name and number that was stuffed into a pocket.
Local media identified the other man as Safiullah.
Hundreds of Afghans were filmed chasing the jet and jumping on the wheel well. Three were crushed to death before take-off, another three fell to their deaths, and at least one more died after being dragged into the mechanism
Video footage taken by some of the men standing on the wheel well shows what Fida's final moments must have looked like
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