> This story seems like a SJW or alt right set up to get normal people to argue about "Pronouns", with a heap of fat shaming thrown in for good measure. Lol wa

> This story seems like a SJW or alt right set up to get normal people to argue about "Pronouns", with a heap of fat shaming thrown in for good measure. Lol wat? > If load weight is such an issue, why wouldn't they just have scales at the gates or somewhere alone the taxi route that weighs the entire loaded plane. In the trucking industry there are even certain trailers with scales built-in and portable enforcement units that the highway enforcement use to catch and fine overweight loads. Did you even read the report? They show the readout with the estimated vs actual weight. The captain was aware of the discrepancy, they knew the load sheet was off, but went with it anyway. > I have heard stories of helicopter passengers needed to be seated according to their weight to balance a load but would hope the margin of error in a 737 covers atleast 2X passenger weight, they made everything else double redundant on them. The plane didn't crash.. it was within safety factors. The captain decided it was a small enough error. Some random error is expected, but still, it's an issue if the estimates are systematically wrong.