Hudson, you should have been in command of the French 744 which departed Joburg for Paris some years ago, dispatched with the wx radar INOP!!!! and for a night flight!!!!
That son of a ***** didn't want to send back to the hotel 400 pax, and he figured out he could cross the whole Africa, at night, watching out the window, like Lindbergh did!
The result was a mess, roughly abeam Senegal, if I remember correctly, an emergency diversion to Marseille, and the DEATH of an old lady thrown onto the ceiling.
