CpnCrunch, Please show me where I said that, if you cant simply withdraw you false statement. I have no doubt however that many operators have flown overweight, both knowingly and unintentionly, way back when my aircraft was loaded {by error} with twice the legal lower cargo load, to say the departure was "interesting" would be an understatement.What went wrong? Shift change in load control was not handled the way it should have been, the good news was as we were scheduled for four stops that night we had full methanol tanks, by using all of the methanol we made it around the patch,{dumping fuel way below the recomended altitude by the way} but all four engines had to be checked for over temps, the load sheet by the way showed us under gross!
You bring up the overloading of the Air France flight, but you say about Buffalo that "I suspect their major sin is poor paperwok" even though overloading seemed to be a major factor in their 2013 accident. I'm just trying to understand your reasoning, so please clarify if I have interpreted your statements incorrectly.