Budrvr - IT DIDN'T, and you leave the BAGS, not the fuel, I have flown this sort of op. and usually find the right sort of approach helps ( aviation is safe IF you stay within the limits).
nb It was also saying on cefax that the pilot was "not certificated" to fly the aircraft - don't know the basis of this, but if he was low experience this would not have helped with an overloaded a/c
Two hunters are being picked up from the bush by light a/c. they ask the pilot to load an elk they have shot. "too heavy" says the pilot. "we did it last year" say the hunters. Pilot reluctantly agrees.
A/C staggers off the ground and ploughs into the trees off the end.
"well, we got 50ft further than last year" says one of the hunters!