Oh, for crying out load - it was 200kgs!!! To off load people for 200kgs extra fuel is ridiculous in the extreme.
I'm sorry, but at cruise fuel flows that is approx 5 mins flying time & anyone with half an ounce of airmanship could have found a way around it legally. Either there is a hell of a lot more to the story (and there usually is) or someone dropped the ball big time!
Perhaps some of you guys should step back from the trees a bit & take a look at the forest!