22/04
I wouldn't put this down to being a Colombian/South American thing; there's also plenty of outfits in the supposedly more 'enlightened' areas of the world who are or were happy to push things too far, and gamble with lives at the same time. Sadly, I seem to have worked for two such outfits. One of which neatly fits in with the point that the Ancient Greek alludes to- is the mass loaded the same as that recorded?
One enterprising colleague even went so far as to tell me two important (in his view) points- 1). So long as the paperwork is right... 2). It's their aircraft, they can do as they like.