The IL76 can carry 96 parachutists .
On the thirtieth day of the new year and on the first day of the new year, the air force and the local government sent three and two medical teams, respectively. On the second day of the new year, the Beijing medical team will also begin. Of the first five medical teams to begin, three were from three military medical schools that were transported to Wuhan from Shanghai, Xi'an and Chongqing on three Il-76 transport planes. Medical teams from Shanghai and Guangzhou arrived in Wuhan on China Eastern Airlines and China Southern Airlines. In the case of CEA, for example, the CEA medical team transported 140 people, including 432 pieces of baggage and a total of 4,690 kilograms*** of mainly medical equipment and medicines to Wuhan. In fact, the amount of this material is not so large that it is entirely possible to use a civilian airliner to accomplish the loading task, mainly for personnel transportation.
From the point of view of transportation, the Air Force deployment of three IL-76 transport aircraft is not important. This is also because military transports are easier and more flexible to use. On the night of the 25th to the 26th, China Eastern Airlines used freighter 777F cargo planes to bring a large number of masks and other items to Wuhan. On this occasion, the large size of the materials and the fact that they did not require the carriage of personnel made them suitable for transportation by cargo aircraft. Military transport aircraft are mainly considered for the transportation of large equipment and vehicles Il76 was originally designed earlier, and now the height and width of the warehouse is not sufficient to meet the needs of the Army therefore the width emphasizes the height of the warehouse. Relatively similar size of civil airliners are smaller, these transports usually do not arrange seating and need to arrange temporary seating or even seat hangers when transporting personnel. Take the IL 76 as an example. As a cargo plane the size of a Boeing 767-200, it can carry 96 paratroopers.
It doesn't need to carry large medical staff and is so crowded that it can only carry 150 people at a time. A 767-200 of the same size could easily top 200 people if it were laid out in full economy class. But for carrying large numbers of people, modern large transports also have a stunt, which is the added ability to transport people in a mezzanine. During the evacuation of Libya in 2011, four I IL 76 transports sent by the PLA Air Force used a personnel transport mezzanine gun to transport more people at a time. This mezzanine essentially puts a shelf over the cabin. Since the cabin height of these transports could not meet the requirements of a two-tiered cabin, the height of each tier was limited to perhaps one person, but in this case the comfort of the personnel was clearly not the primary concern to be considered . With the use of a two-tiered personnel transportation mezzanine, the IL 76 can transport up to 190-200 people.