Lack of preparations hits you when you have bad luck in the frst place. Knowing that route my guess is the first mistake was made when they decided to take a short-cut accross the dunes, without having adequate contingency water reserves. The likely second (and fatal) mistake was to all crowd on the remaining pickup which was then too heavy to cope with the sand. A light pickup could possibly have made it to help and back.
There are several vehicles per day on the main route from Faya (and even two wells built recently), but for this very reason it is a soft and difficult route and many cars decide to go direct accross the dunes, some better prepared than others.
Last edited by andrasz; 2 Jul 2017 at 09:09.
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