Fat Americans cause plane crash

[beet1e]

Wow, it's worse than I thought!

Source here  

Fat Americans are eating into the US air industry's bottom line, forcing planes to consume ever more fuel to transport their bulk.

 
 
The average weight of Americans rose by 10lb during the 1990s and what a new survey called this "additional adiposity" caused airlines to use a further 350 million gallons of fuel in 2000, at a cost of £149 million. This is hitting the environment with an extra 3.8 million tons of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere.

Bankrupt United Airlines, America's second biggest air travel company, recently announced that it would spend £650 million more than expected on fuel this year because of rising oil prices.

To reduce the weight carried by their planes, airlines have dumped metal cutlery and large magazines and want to use lighter materials in seating. But passenger size is more difficult to control.

To howls of outrage from the country's "fat acceptance" lobby, Southwest Airlines has begun asking larger travellers to purchase a second seat. <:lol - beet>

"The obesity epidemic has unexpected consequences beyond direct health effects," said Dr Deron Burton of the US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, which published the findings. "Our goal was to highlight one area that had not been looked at before."

America's eating habits have been blamed for a lower than expected rise in life expectancy and dearer health insurance but never before for contributing to the woes of a whole sector of the economy.

A commuter plane crash that killed 21 people in North Carolina last year has been blamed on the passengers' greater than average weight.

[Blue2]

Though its happening here too!:rolleyes:

[lazs2]

It's not so much that brits are fat as that they are out of shape and flabby.   Must be that pub thing..

lazs

[Blue2]

Have you ever met us or been here?!

[lazs2]

yes to both.  (well.. haven't met you)

lazs

[Blue2]

Made you an open minded chap then? lol lol:aok

[Creamo]

Beetle, just stick to posting pictures of your British door knobs that work. It's great stuff.

One fat lazy American Union member that would have taken all day to do that job right, would have saved alot of lives.

Safety investigators zeroed in Tuesday on airplane maintenance by outside contractors at a hearing into the cause of the plane crash.

The plane, which plunged to earth 37 seconds after takeoff, was found to have improperly set turnbuckles, which control tension on elevator control cables. If a cable is too slack, the pilot does not have full control of the elevator, a tail flap that moves up and down and causes the plane to climb or dive.

[lazs2]

beetle told me that he was probly the fittest man in england.   I see no reason to doubt that and my travels there did nothing to dispell what he said.

lazs

[Fishu]

When boarding the plane, passengers are not weighted, but their bags and the cargo is.
...and then the weight is calculated from the number of pax and weight of cargo.

Bad for smaller planes

[jigsaw]

Originally posted by beet1e
Wow, it's worse than I thought!  

Get your facts straight.

a) it's still under investigation as it's not listed as "final"

b) it was a maintainence issue compounded by an "aft cg".

You can make a CG "aft" with a feather in the right place.

http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20030110X00049&key=1

If you're gonna be a dip and post something about an overwieght, out of CG airplane, at least get it right and use this one.

http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20010907X01905&key=1

[Sixpence]

Originally posted by Creamo
One fat lazy American Union member[/i]

Or one fat lazy supervisor

or one fat lazy CEO loaded with a suitcase full of your retirement

[Creamo]

Just edit out your whole post and go join another thread you can reply too with something relevant to add.

[beet1e]

oooh jigsaw - testy, testy! PMS?

I was quoting a newspaper article. Why don't you forward your comments to the paper, not to me.

[Sixpence]

Originally posted by Creamo
Just edit out your whole post and go join another thread you can reply too with something relevant to add.

I just followed your lead

[Curval]

lol...excellent troll Beet.

Even got Creamo in...I guess because it had to do with aircraft....two posts too.  He's a fighting fish, like a marlin or really big wahoo.



Lazs is just a standard tuna.  Big, meaty and able to be canned easily.

Chicken of the sea...so to speak.