Originally Posted by
martinebrangan
was flying Dublin Guernsey route. The aircraft was far from full, and the senior flight attendant asked a number of passengers to move into other seats to better distribute the weight, as she saw the aircraft would otherwise be too nose heavy.
I was on a 737 flight to Malaga one xmas and there were only 24 passengers and we were asked to move about by the cabin crew. Not unusual.
Also there was a very famous 2003 CofG crash which killed everybody on take off, straight up and down. The plane was overweight and CoG was outside the aft envelope.
The NTSB investigator found that airlines were still using average passenger weights from 1936, but in 2003 people were on average much heavier.
This accident caused all the passenger weight tables to be updated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Midwest_Flight_5481