"Consider Myself Lucky": Student On Air India's Last Flight From Kabul

For the last three days, the Kabul airport has seen gut-wrenching scenes of people desperate to get out of Afghanistan as the Taliban swept the country.

A 20-year-old Afghan student who made it to the last flight that Air India flew from Kabul on Sunday told NDTV that he considered himself "very lucky" to have made it to the aircraft just as the Taliban took the country's capital. "There were around 129 people on the flight. Before getting into the flight I was very, very anxious and had a lot of tension because when I woke up, I read the news that Taliban were getting the capital Kabul," the student, who identified himself as Abdullah, said. "I started heading to the airport. There was massive traffic on the way to the airport. I ended up walking. The flight had mostly Indians trying to get out. I recognised three government officials. Our flight was delayed by 2.5 hours," he said. "I consider myself very lucky. When our flight took off, the Taliban captured Kabul and that was the last flight. But we luckily landed safely," Abdullah said.