Originally Posted by
WHBM
It is difficult to see how this number on board could have been carried without such jury-rig accommodation. The IL-76 is not a large aircraft; it's not a widebody. The cabin is smaller than a 757. It is most commonly used for cargo, or with a small passenger compartment separated from this. It does not have cabin windows.
I agree. The IL-76 was designed and configured for cargo, tank, fire-fighting, surveillance but no evidence of pax accomodation. The lack of cabin windows may be not a big problem in a case of an extreme evac procedure because the cargo hall is totally pressurized.
Now going into the 250+ people on board: I sincerely don't understand how could all those bodies come into that AC, even if the "double littered deck" was installed.
Those persons were cargoed like cattle. Cannot imagine how could it be programmed...
