I can't for the life of me fiquire out why weight and balance computers are not fitted in the "great European aircraft" called the airbus. If nothing else the W & B computor provodes a check angainst the load sheet. It's hardly new as the later models of the B707 had them. Called a STAN system, if memory serves me correctly.
Some of the cargo brokers used to hate it, as it would uncover their dirty little lies of what weight was actually on board.
Just a thought, it might very well have picked up the problem in this case before the A/C reached V1.