Bill Smith
It is sad that most of you on this post generally accept that the 404 was over weight e.g. carrying max fuel etc. It would be nice if you gave the pilot the professional respect he deserves and assumed that he was operating the aircraft within it's limitations.
What a load of crap. No one has made that accusation at all. Titan Driver and myself were discussing how much fuel could be carried with 6 POB after a question from Captain Sand Dune asking if a 404 would be overweight with 6 POB and full fuel. The reality is that it most likely would be. Nowhere in any of the posts written has anyone said that this aircraft had full fuel. How the hell would we know, we didn’t refuel it. We will leave it to the investigators to determine what happened. Maybe you can go back and read the posts again before jumping to any conclusions, something you have accused us of doing.
