RAF Voyager lands at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire carrying some 250 passengers from Kabul who have exited the country amid the Taliban's resurgence.
More than 11,000 people have now been evacuated from Afghanistan by UK troops.
New figures from the Ministry of Defence (MoD) showed that 11,474 people had been able to leave the country since the evacuation mission Operation Pitting began on August 13.
This includes embassy staff, British nationals, those eligible under the Afghan relocation and assistance policy (Arap) programme, as well as some evacuees from allied countries.
Evacuations are continuing amid chaotic scenes at Kabul airport, in the final days before foreign troops leave Afghanistan, with Defence Secretary Ben Wallace reportedly telling MPs Afghans seeking asylum in the UK would now be better off heading to the country's borders than to the airport.
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