Things like this accident always make me wonder – how many accidents and damaged aircraft incidents are caused by 'operational expediency' – rush, push and tear arse???. No amount, or lack of 'regulation' will prevent these events from reoccurring. It's only going to result in a 'Local Council' like approach to regulation - to the unleashed dog rule i.e. all must suffer for the odd bad egg. Why not land at the ALA?- unload – drive 13 Kms, takes what – 20 minutes; so for the sake of a hour, all up, two lives and an aircraft are lost. All this to fix a bloody truck. Gut busting – and un required haste continue to claim lives.
Ive said it before the hardest word in aviation to learn is the word
NO