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Anonymous
>>372238 aero engineer here, commenting needlessly on-topic in the midst a silly metric v imperial flamewar.
reason the plane couldn't take off wasn't because they were too fat, was because they were in the wrong place. when they sat at the back, they moved the plane's centre of gravity too far aft, probably past the neutral point (aerodynamic centre) making the plane dynamically unstable and unflyable.
tl;dr newspapers get facts wrong. again.
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