Timeline for How do airlines handle uncertainty in passenger weight for weight and balance calculations?
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| May 29, 2019 at 21:18 | vote | accept | Christopher Howlin | ||
| Apr 29, 2018 at 20:04 | comment | added | Vikki | Air Midwest 5841 crashed due to a combination of a) being overloaded and out of balance and b) having had its elevator cable turnbuckles improperly set during its most recent maintenance visit, leaving the pilots with insufficient longitudinal control. Neither would have been fatal on its own - the plane being overloaded and out of balance was necessary for that crash to happen, but not, on its own, sufficient. | |
| Jun 3, 2016 at 15:50 | history | answered | kevin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |