Got a little yarn about a Kuwaiti A300 out of trim in flight.
Used to be a dispatcher(one of the proper ones that did load planning/loadsheets etc)for AF and we used to handle them at LHR.
Anyway a fellow dispatcher,who happens to be a very good friend of mine and who will KILL me if he reads this(sorry mate!!)made a boo-boo at the load planning stage.When entering cargo details,he entered a pallet number as a cargo weight.....so what you might think?
Well,problem was that the pallet number was something like 1214 (i.e. he entered 1214kgs) and the pallet actually weighed something in excess of 5000kgs.
Somewhere in flight,the trim alarms went off on the flightdeck and the crew ended up having to move 20-30 pax from the last couple of rows of cattle class into 1st class to get the thing back into trim.Not good!