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Sounds like the reporter doesn't know what he's talking about. There are different standard weights for adult male, adult female, children and infants. The standard weights are higher in winter to allow for clothes and there's an admonition in the AIP to add 30 pounds per person when carrying "a group of large males (such as a football team). Also, why is the crash being blamed on a bad "estimate" of the baggage weight? The baggage is weighed at check-in so it would not be an error in estimation, it's a calculation error.

What really concerns me is the proposed requirement to occasionally weigh passengers only for aicraft carrying 10 or more pax. Balance is more critical for smaller aircraft so a more sensible rule would be to weigh the self-loading cargo for aircraft with fewer than 50 seats.

All that aside, it would probably be a good idea to revise the standard weights. People (especially Americans) are getting heavier and that does affect safety.

[Geritol]

the carry on luggage is not weighed

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I've been on many small aircraft where they asked us our weights and positioned the passengers accordingly.