re: #356 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

That’s how many seats you can put in a C-17. Stuffing them in shoulder to shoulder on a cargo floor, a lot more can fit. The record is 1088 in an El Al 747 (maximum 514 seats) during Operation Solomon in 1991.

Where would these people be safer, packed in a plane or waiting on the ground?