Airline Begins Weighing Passengers For 'Safety'

Posted by timothy on Thursday August 13, 2015 @01:03AM from the it's-your-head-or-your-carry-on dept.

New submitter Lopsemily writes to note that passengers on Uzbekistan Airways may face a new pre-flight check: In a recent statement, the country's flag carrier announced it will weigh passengers and their carry-on luggage prior to flights to determine how much weight they'll be adding to the plane. 'According to the rules of International Air Transport Association, airlines are obliged to carry out the regular procedures of preflight control passengers weighing with hand baggage to observe requirements for ensuring flight safety,' says the airline's statement.

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Re:Just starting now? by FatdogHaiku · 2015-08-13 01:56 · Score: 5, Insightful

Can't you get all the info you need by building sensors into the landing gear, if they're not there already. Weight change at each wheel set should give overall balance and total live load... they already know what the static load is so it's people, luggage, and fuel that vary.

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