The closest we got to a hostie was a heavy-set Ugandan engineer! (Whom I wouldn't have swapped for even Kelly Brook as a hostie).
I'll echo Matt though, the LET is very trim sensitive (having flown it in the para-drop role, often with the No1 feathered) it's quite alarming for at times for an aeroplane of that size.
Unfortunately accidents like this will forever be associated with flying in the Congo and my sympathies go out to the families of those lost. I still have days when I'd swap my airline job to go back for more of the laughs I had with the Air-Tec guys and girls.
