Overweight and tail heavy airplane was 'legal' for takeoff The fatal Jan. 8 crash of Air Midwest [AMI] Flight 5481 on takeoff at Charlotte, N.C., illustrates the danger of operating an aircraft outside of its approved performance envelope and how maintenance error can combine with an overloaded condition with deadly consequences. The airplane was a ticking death machine when it left maintenance on the morning of Jan. 7, and in its overloaded and tail heavy condition the latent hazard lurking…
Air Midwest Crash Exposes Systemic Shortcomings
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