AC-20G crew from VR-48, deployed to Al Udeid Air Base, was climbing through 30,000 feet on a departure out of Kabul, Afghanistan. The left land-ing gear unexpectedly deployed. The pilot immediately had to make extreme control inputs to fly wings level.Eventually, a green downlock light alerted the crew to the uncommanded gear-down condition. The crew recognized the aircraft was well outside of the 225-knot/20,000-foot envelope for gear extension. In moun-tainous terrain, with degraded controllability and without a NATOPS procedure, the crew declared an emergency and coordinated a divert into Bagram Airfield.
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