I remember several years back taking a co-worker to the airport for a flight to Sydney on a very small airline. Earlier that year they had experienced a fatal crash. One thing I had never seen before was weighing each passenger and when everyone was checked in, assigning seats. Second was that the pilot got a fuel sample from the fueling truck, took it into a back room, and after a few minutes came out and gave the fueler the okay to proceed. Too bad it took a crash to tidy things up.