Is the pressure that bad on crews from their operators to get into airfields with limited approaches/approach aids and in marginal weather, and especially considering the UN and all these organisations have 'unlimited' funds and could happily pay for another flight the following day.
If you've flown there then you know that the Wx systems there can be huge... if you were determined never to encounter one you'd never get airborne. I once took off from a dirt strip to fly a 35 min leg to another dirt strip and got totally cut off (B200) by a system that must have covered around 6000 sq miles... we were looking seriously at 'landing' on a mud-spit on the Ubenge river when a small gap allowed us to squeeze through to a hairy landing with just 12 min fuel remaining
after a 2hr:30min flight !
Goffel... Would appreciate a pm regarding the crew... The guy with me in the cockpit that day is still flying with Airserv on the 1900 and as yet I've not had a response to an e-mail... many thanks.