@marie paire,
Please stop throwing red herrings into the equation!
Are you a new mod on the thread?
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Originally Posted by PashaF View Post
I was thinking about contributory factors and it seems to me that football team are not average passengers. They travel with a lot of baggage, and journalist equipment was also on board. What if the plane was heavier than usual? Within legal regulation but enough to eat that10 minutes they was hoping for.
PashaF was writing about contributory factors, and quite reasonably IMO. The extra load would have required more fuel.