I'm baffled by the stories of gross overloading on these HaJJ flights
3-rd world countries may well have a much more relaxed attitude to life and health ,than Westerners........but I have to question the professionalism of the Pilot-respondents on this Thread who
admit to having
knowingly flown a grossly overweight aircraft.
yes, I can accept "cramming them in"....even loading to known safe limits
but compromising your
own safety,by going to the edge of the performance envelope, seems, at the least, foolhardy.
(plenty of "gung -ho" actions in wartime,as well,-but this isn't wartime, either.
*awaits incoming, dons flame-suit*
