Exactly so 3-80.
It's not about how likely the crew were to get shot mugged or blown up but much to do with glaring disparity of company words against company action and all the assurances about what would happen if crews got unexpectedly stuck in KBL. Much was made about how the safety and security of its crews is paramount. Crews would be under escort and guidance, they would stop in "the green zone" Ya-da Ya-da Ya-da.
The first sniff of a down route tech issue and the Spaceman's assurances and security "plan" folds like a cheap Dragon Mart sun lounger. No mention in the brief of being ejected from the aircraft under protest on the wrong end of the local garrison commander's rifle. Then left to stand in outside a deserted terminal in shirt sleeves on a November night in the mountains for 2 hours. Before managing to beg a lift in the private cars of a ground agent and his friend. Then pitching up to an unknown hotel somewhere in a safe or maybe unsafe (how are the crew to know) area of down-town Kabul.
I am sure Mogadishu will feature in our destinations very shortly along with guidance that any news stories we may have seen about a civil war have greatly exaggerated and its really an ideal holiday destination.
Here I'm sure sure i know that smell. Sheep ..no that's not it. Cow...hmmm maybe.....Oh I've got yeah bull**** that's it!
F-C