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An oveweight is a potential accident cause involving excessive cargo loading that can mostly happen to

Overweight

transport aircraft, specially to passenger planes when baggage total weight is not properly calculated. Very few of these cases end with consequences when the plane is stopped on the ground, while the rest has no consequences until it's too late and the plane takes off and can't fly and then crashes.

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A Boeing 747 has suffered from 'overweihgt'

Accidents involving overweight[]

  • LACSA flight 628 crashed during takeoff at a field next to Juan Santamaría Airport due to baggage excess. There were no fatalities.
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