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Airplane Weight Limit
Warmtea Started conversation Oct 20, 2000
Why do airlines go to all the trouble of weighing every bodies baggage to the last gram - including hand baggage, only to completely neglect the actual weight of the passenger to whom the baggage belongs?
I find it incredible that a 20st bloke has the same baggage allowance as a 7st woman. Surely a plane full of Americans will weigh more than a plane full of Japanese? Yet everyone has the same allowance.
Perhaps to balance the load, the US airlines actually remove some of the airframe to compensate for the excess weight of its citizens that explains why it's the US planes that crash and not the Japanese ones?
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