The employees are deputised to approve safety assessments and handle other jobs for the Federal Aviation Administration, making their independence from company pressure critical.
Before the Paralympic Games began, the IPC confirmed that the athletes would no longer be able to compete, and the Afghan flag featured at Tuesday’s opening ceremony in a symbolic fashion only, carried by a volunteer.
So far, the UN in Afghanistan has flown over 220 people from Kabul to Almaty in view of the “security and other constraints” in the country now under the Taliban’s control.
