[ProtectOurFreedom]

This is a LAME Fox News story. Read the REAL story in The Australian -- Emirates near-miss vanished on radar at Melbourne -- for a spine tingling tale. The plane took off 100 TONS overweight and ran out of runway.

[gandalftb]

I read that too. No way they were 100 tons overweight, something wrong there. Anyone doing load calcs would notice more than 3 or 4 tons underwight, not 100 tons.

BTW, a reduced thrust takeoff does not use less fuel. If you keep the reduced power setting in during the climb it takes longer to get to cruising altitude using more fuel overall. The savings is in reduced engine wear.

[Blueflag]

Let’s see .. 100 X 2000 = 200,000 lbs. over Max gross?

Are you sure?