article_snippet.sent: CNN)As soon as the buses parked, the people scrambled onto the airport tarmac.
article_snippet.sent: the people sprinted or walked with deliberation to the airplanes.
article_snippet.sent: The stress of living in a war zone showed on The passengers faces.
article_snippet.sent: the people climbed the steps to this Air India plane and were greeted by the Air India crew, all wearing pressed uniforms, the flight attendants fully made up.
article_snippet.sent: After takeoff, the flight attendants went up and down the aisle offering drinks to the 188 evacuees as if the flight attendants were on a vacation flight.
article_snippet.sent: But some passengers were already fast asleep, exhausted by the push to get out of Yemen, site of some of the most chaotic fighting in the Mideast.
article_snippet.sent: As the plane approached Yemen, the crew could see the scars of the fighting.
article_snippet.sent: The loading of passengers was swift.
article_snippet.sent: They approached the planes carrying boarding passes -- another touch of normalcy in the otherwise abnormal event.
article_snippet.sent: Children sat on Children parents' laps to maximize the number of people on the plane.
article_snippet.sent: Some passengers fell asleep as soon as Some passengers took Some passengers seats before takeoff.
article_snippet.sent: Everyone seemed to carry the weight of war, especially nurses who had tended the wounded.