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You are not remembering wrong. And problems with weight and balance have contributed significantly to accidents on commercial carriers, even in the USA. https:

• kpw94 3y ago
  As recently as February of this year, weight issues made flights tail hit the runway: https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.yahoo.com/amphtml/software-bug-caused-two-alaska-010000035.html https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.yahoo.com/amphtml/software... > a software glitch was responsible for the incident. According to the Seattle Times, the tailstrikes occurred largely as the result of a bug in a program sold by a Swedish firm called DynamicSource. The program is supposed to deliver “crucial weight and balance data” that pilots enter into their flight computers to help determine stuff like “how much thrust the engines will provide and at what speed the jet will be ready to lift off.” In this case, the tool delivered faulty data that “seriously undervalued [the] weights for the airplanes.”
  • vore 3y ago
    ...the data [delivered] was on the order of 20,000 to 30,000 pounds light. I don't think this bug is something that would have been resolved by weighing passengers or not.
• Yizahi 3y ago
  Also a Tu-104 crash with all USSR Pacific Fleet admirals and command on board: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Pushkin_Tu-104_crash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Pushkin_Tu-104_crash