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Old 02-15-2010, 03:28 PM  
rowan
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I saw an ep of Air Crash Investigation where a smaller regional aircraft was overloaded (and crashed) because their takeoff weight calculations assume an average passenger weight, which was last figured in the 1970s or something... much of the world has gotten heavier since.
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