report: fat people cause plane crashes

[Hammer]

:evil:

actually, miscalculating the average weight of passengers does. the faa is asking the airlines to re-examine how they calculate average weights of passengers and baggage.

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[HomeBrewerDude]

I would say the real problem was the fact that the PLANE WAS ASSEMBLED WRONG.

First, the airline's guidelines for estimating the weight of passengers and baggage were inaccurate. The pilots, therefore, didn't realize the plane's rear section was too heavy.

Second, mechanics had improperly rigged cables connected to the elevator, the tail flap that controls the up-and-down direction of the aircraft's nose. The errors meant the elevator's downward motion was restricted to half its normal range, according to the NTSB.

 

[iamwiz82]

I believe this was one of possibilities looked at when they investigated USAir Flight 427. It ended up not being what caused it, but it was a theory.

 

[K1052]

Originally posted by: HomeBrewerDude
I would say the real problem was the fact that the PLANE WAS ASSEMBLED WRONG.

First, the airline's guidelines for estimating the weight of passengers and baggage were inaccurate. The pilots, therefore, didn't realize the plane's rear section was too heavy.

Second, mechanics had improperly rigged cables connected to the elevator, the tail flap that controls the up-and-down direction of the aircraft's nose. The errors meant the elevator's downward motion was restricted to half its normal range, according to the NTSB.

Actually, it sounds like the plane was improperly maintained.

 

[ElFenix]

fat people are a health hazard! kill them all!

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

Originally posted by: K1052

Originally posted by: HomeBrewerDude
I would say the real problem was the fact that the PLANE WAS ASSEMBLED WRONG.

First, the airline's guidelines for estimating the weight of passengers and baggage were inaccurate. The pilots, therefore, didn't realize the plane's rear section was too heavy.

Second, mechanics had improperly rigged cables connected to the elevator, the tail flap that controls the up-and-down direction of the aircraft's nose. The errors meant the elevator's downward motion was restricted to half its normal range, according to the NTSB.

Actually, it sounds like the plane was improperly maintained.

true. it was RE-assembled incorrectly. My point was there are other reasons cited for the crash.

 

[vi edit]

Between that and the fact that carry on luggage has gone insane lately. People are carrying small trunks onboard as carry on luggage anymore. Whatever happened to a small briefcase or a purse being carry on? It shouldn't take three people heaving and shoving to get a piece of luggage shoved into an overhead compartment.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: vi_edit
Between that and the fact that carry on luggage has gone insane lately. People are carrying small trunks onboard as carry on luggage anymore. Whatever happened to a small briefcase or a purse being carry on? It shouldn't take three people heaving and shoving to get a piece of luggage shoved into an overhead compartment.

my dad doesn't bring carry on luggage, just a book