Dear Rogerdabootler; seems you are/were involved with sending the IL-76 back soutbound after it dropped of the armoured vehicles in Baghdad.
Specific question is: is/was she carrying tobacco products, where destined for, and were/are all protocols and taxation conventions considered for the destination country.
It is also ironical that nobody has as quickly yet ventured their expert or qualified opinion if this (only T-model) IL-76 is a legally airworthy aircraft, maintained and officialy prolongated by the IL Design Buro, notwithstanding exceding its hull-lifelimit, which has expired. Or about who Avient's sleeping partners in Zimbabwe are.
Its also amazing that the European Union are prepared to accept the Regulatory Oversight of the Zimbabwean CAA where the DC-10's (actualy very old) are now registered, in a clearly dysfunctional country where $10 can buy anything.
We all know that nothing works in Zimbabwe anymore, and that for a few cents any papers for anything can be obtained. The Zim authorities were/are even prepared to register, regulate and oversee Chinese Xian's which are by now apparently not even flying anymore.
Now explain, why flying for DAS, under Ugandan and Ghanian oversight, the DC-10's were not good enough and banned by Europe, but simply re-registered in Zimbabwe on a dubious operators name with dubious characters as sleeping partners, what make sthem any better and lesser risk for the safety of european skies?
An intensive investigation by the UN should be conducted into Avient's associations and partnerships in Zimbabwe to expose their involvement with persons who are otherwise banned from such activities and using this relationship and partnership to circumvent international ban's in collusion with with these known unscrupulous British people.
Please tell us about the IL-76 southbound tobacco products comrade!