Plane Pitches Up Uncontrollably / Air Midwest Flight 5481 Stalls After Takeoff
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Air Midwest's Weight and Balance Program Wasn't Updated to Reflect That
The reason it was off is the program that air midwest used to determine the weight and balance for the planes had incorrect figures. And also, i think, if you remember what i said earlier, they were estimating a hundred 75 pounds as an adult. Scary to think that the weight difference of 19 people and their bags threwt that out o wack. Or 19 people put on that much more weight, that a the plane couldn't account for it. An the centere gravity moved too far back, the plane was too heavy to take off. Yes, that's that's crazy to think. What that i don't even want look at what the average weight of average human is
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