Originally Posted by
fox niner
You can not load 189 passengers wrongly on a 737. It is the maximum capacity, so that weight distribution is always within limits. The fuel will also never cause any problems either with a full pax load, because of design.
Leaves the luggage. Knowing that indonesians will carry fairly bulky stuff with them,I dont see how the cargo compartments could not be full. This would imply an evenly distributed load among all 4 compartments.
—> this will not turn out to be a load distribution accident. I go for pitot covers as well.
With the snag report of the previous flight in mind, it appears to be a case of badly repaired unreliable airspeed/altitude indications and the mismanagement of the re-occurrence on this fatal flight.