Originally Posted by
deefer dog
@marie paire,
Are you a new mod on the thread?
PashaF was writing about contributory factors, and quite reasonably IMO. The extra load would have required more fuel.
The a/c was full of fuel so the possible extra weight would only mean a few minutes of lost range and they might have made it. But, if this pilot/airline were doing this flight on a regular basis this was always going to happen one day.