I had a little flying experience in Africa and I am not surprised something like that can happen. Every time I used to walk on african aprons it was a very interesting show to watch the loading phase of the military flights: for example people hanging out from the front door while the IL 76 was already taxying, etc....
The maintenance standards are often very different from what we are used to. But that's Africa. And the flying activity in those skyies is amazing.
To understand what could have happend you have to forget the normal operations we have in mind in the "first world countries". Sorry for the poor passengers that will never fly again on the IL76.
