However, if a sender, or his agent falsifies a bill of lading or a waybill on a weight-sensitive airplane, then I would consider it criminal.
Well this actually happens quite often. The loadmaster/dispatcher have to trust the data provided by those agents, and some of that information can either be incorrect or manipulated.
Have a look:
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthr...hreadid=142190
Here are 2 quotes from that discussion:
...found out that in the old fokker27 days the check in staff used to rush to the jkia waving/ observation deck to see whether the plane actually takes off with all the illegal excess baggage and cargo they received bribes for!
Just the other day we saw a 15 Ton overload out of VHHH.