Originally Posted by
Justapax1
The airlines use an average weight per passenger. I'd be interested to know if they use different weights for flights within North America than say within South Asia. I do know that the average weight figures have been revised upwards over the years because of people getting fatter, though.
I'd guess that the pilot of a smallish aircraft carrying a rugby team has to allow extra fuel and take on less airfreight due to the extra weight of his passengers. Rugby players come *big*.
I have a vague memory of an episode of 'Air crash investigation' where the crash was caused by a massive under-estimate of the passenger's weight.
I think they we transporting a company of marines back from some warzone and they weight a lot more than the average parents+2.2 kids.