Bench Configuration News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

A quick decision. did they follow the regulations and tell the afghans don't board the plane. as your previous -- this is against regulations. nothing about this was normal. and instead, they made a decision as a crew to load up as many people as they could and take off as quickly as they could. it's a very, very different situation. these aircraft, as you mentioned, normally can carry about 300 when there's a seat or bench configuration. and what they did here, they had everyone sit on the floor in a floor loading configuration. the only time i've seen this happen was in 2013 in a typhoon res...

Decision as a crew to load up as many people as they could and take off as quickly as they could. it's a very, very different situation. these aircraft, as you mentioned, normally can carry about 300 when there's a seat or bench configuration. and what they did here, they had everyone sit on the floor in a floor loading configuration. the only time i've seen this happen was in 2013 in a typhoon rescue. but even then, it was more orderly where there were cargo straps so everyone could hold on to the cargo straps. this is everyone taking every available space they could. once they had their full...