School children caught up in Qantas plane weight drama!
School children caught up in Qantas plane weight drama!
The kids were at the back; 87 of them apparently roughly 50kg lighter than assumed - just over 4 tonnes of assumed mass missing:
"The miscalculation meant that the Boeing 737 appeared "nose-heavy" during take off, requiring the captain to pull pack on his elevator controls to rotate the aircraft and lift off from the runway at Canberra Airport."
As a result:
"The captain maintained steady pressure on the plane's control column to ensure that the aircraft's tail did not strike the runway during the take-off."
Maybe I'm missing something here, but surely a tail strike was the least likely consequence. No mention of rearranging the passengers in flight.
"The miscalculation meant that the Boeing 737 appeared "nose-heavy" during take off, requiring the captain to pull pack on his elevator controls to rotate the aircraft and lift off from the runway at Canberra Airport."
As a result:
"The captain maintained steady pressure on the plane's control column to ensure that the aircraft's tail did not strike the runway during the take-off."
Maybe I'm missing something here, but surely a tail strike was the least likely consequence. No mention of rearranging the passengers in flight.
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QANTAS: Data entry rear-end SNAFU
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Data entry REAR-END SNAFU: Weighty ballsup leads to plane take-off flap ? The Register
Data entry REAR-END SNAFU: Weighty ballsup leads to plane take-off flap ? The Register
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From the ATSB http://www.atsb.gov.au/media/5092920...-088_final.pdf
It's good to see they are changing procedures to prevent it happening again in the future. I think it could quite easily have turned into a high speed reject and been more serious.
