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Weighing airline passengers
2004-02-27 21:03:58.157382+01 by
Dan Lyke
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Remember all that brouhaha over Southwest Airlines charging extremely overweight passengers for two seats? Well, it turns out that overweight passengers may have been a factor in one fatal crash, and the NTSB is asking airlines to start weighing their passengers so that they can compensate for the increasing payloads on airplanes.
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