Boeing 727 Fleeing Sudan Conflict Overruns Runway

This kind of overloading was common on evacuation flights from Darwin, Australia after the city was destroyed by Cyclone Tracy in December 1974. My great uncle flew out 296 people on a 154-seat Ansett 727-200, and a Qantas 747 reportedly carried 674 on one trip. http://www.adastron.com/cyclone-tracy/tracy-chronology.htm

When your butts in a bind, you do what you have to do.

AeroExplorer.com sucks.

I applaud the effort to extract those refugees in a time of significant danger. The dynamics are extremely tense and unpredictable.

"straps and ropes used to keep cargo pallets secured inflight are what enabled 300 passengers to fit into an aircraft meant to carry 150" . . . "During the flight, all . . . passengers would have held onto the ropes and straps as makeshift seatbelts." Yeah right- ropes and straps ought to do it.

Paywall! That sucks.

My ad-blocker remained in place and there were NO problems w. pop-up warnings. I'm also using a VPN!

Be nice if it was a site that allowed blockers.. Little trust in those sites!

This kind of overloading was common on evacuation flights from Darwin, Australia after the city was destroyed by Cyclone Tracy in December 1974. My great uncle flew out 296 people on a 154-seat Ansett 727-200, and a Qantas 747 reportedly carried 674 on one trip.

The title of the article makes it sound as if the Boeing 727 had issues. I guess that was to grab attention.

Operation Solomon in 1991 set a world record for most passengers on an aircraft when an El Al 747 carried well over 1,000 people to Israel. The record itself is uncontested, but the number of passengers is unclear: Guinness World Records put the number at 1,088, including two babies who were born on the flight. It noted that contemporary reports cite numbers as low as 1,078 and as high as 1,122.

Looks like a 40 flapper, guy did his best. Must have been some fence speed.

So let’s get this straight. This plane was chartered by members of Parliament and wealthy business folk who likely caused most if not all problems in this poor country. Only to leave the most vulnerable to suffer the atrocities that will befall them. Gee and how was the plane paid for? Foreign aide? Yup I get it. Every rich Man and Politician for themselves.
God Bless the people left behind.