I once offloaded an IL76 at a large UK airbase that had vehicles and other heavy items bulk-loaded to the point that the only restraint was the proximity of the items to each other and to the side-walls and ceiling of the aircraft. We didn't realise there were 4x4's in the load until we found them buried under other freight!
So this doesn't surprise me at all.
The fact that we are in a global emergency is no excuse not to load the aircraft and restrain the load correctly.
Or maybe, to the guy telling us to "get a life" you'd take the risk of that 124 departing controlled flight due to a load shift and coming down on a city centre?
Appreciate the load is very different, but cases like this sadly always bring to my mind the the awful Bagram 747 accident that is too dreadful to watch.
Last edited by Wycombe; 1st Apr 2020 at 20:02.