Originally Posted by
ShyTorque
I could have prevented that crash if I’d been a passenger because I’d probably have been the one passenger who volunteered to get out after it ran out of power during the first attempt. If the aircraft had been less heavily loaded, the pilot might have got away with it.
Indeed, there is a certain irony that one of the passengers was a bodyguard who could have best protected his principal by not being there.
I would bet the pilot was pressured to take more weight than he was comfortable with by politicians who are used to their every whim being indulged.