Saskatoon9999
You mentioned that you'd like to see the load sheets. For what it's worth, I was waiting to board a local flight at Sharjah some years ago when the crew of a Russian cargo flight passed through Departures on their way out to the aircraft. Each of them was pushing/pulling 2 baggage trolleys piled high with vehicle batteries and tyres. There were also many other cartons and boxes that I couldn't identify but they looked heavy. It crossed my mind at the time that that none of that stuff would probably be recorded on the aircraft W&B sheet. I've never been to Khartoum so I don't know whether it is a shopping spot for flight crews but if it is and what I witnessed at Sharjah is anything to go by then, perhaps, the aircraft was overloaded. To ban all Ilyushin and Antonov aircraft seems a little extreme.