Originally Posted by
WHBM
Possibly the trail starts well before the flight, with its commercial arrangements. We can presume the football team had little or no experience of Due Diligence on the carrier selected. Were they chosen on the basis of being the bottom bidder ? There's not a lot of medium-haul jet charter capacity available in South America, what there is mainly comprises A320/737 from the mainstream operators, doubtless at a higher rate.
The accident reminds me of the Zambian national football team accident in 1993 when they were being taken right across Africa to Dakar in nothing more than an air force DHC-5, which required three fuel stops on the way, and was lost at one of these intermediate points.
what are the similarities, apart from a football team on board, if I may ask?