I put another angle to you Lifes a Beech, I am sure the families of both the crew and pax as you say might be reading this are perhaps now asking themselves just how professional the operation is that their loved ones worked for.
As you say, you would think after an operator experienced this terrible kind of accident they would implement such operating procedures to greatly reduce the chance of it ever happening again.
As Nickerbal listed earlier(post 61), AirServs poor record:
1X C210 go down in Uganda
1X B200 have a gear failure = 100% mechanics error in West Africa.
IX Heli Pilot shot & killed in Afghanistan
1X Caravan totalled in Mozambique
1X Otter totalled in DRC
1X Heli side swipe a mountain in Afghanistan
Does that record sound like a company who have learnt from the past.
Life...also said this,
'however if you think about it from a human nature perspective, do you not think that the parties involved have taken every opportunity to learn from previous mistakes and implemented precautionary measures to prevent accidents from happening? I don't think any person or organisation would ever want something like this to happen once, let alone more than once.'
Do you think your statement above applies to AirServ?