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FAA investigating Southwest over baggage-weight calculations
https://www.travelweekly.com/Travel...ng-Southwest-over-baggage-weight-calculations
By Robert Silk / Aviation / Travel Weekly / travelweekly.com / Feb 19, 2019
“For the past year, the FAA has been investigating Southwest Airlines' procedures for calculating and recording the weight and balance of aircraft, the agency confirmed in an email Tuesday.
The investigation, first revealed by the Wall Street Journal on Monday, deals primarily with miscalculations of the total weight of checked luggage on Southwest flights. Such miscalculations have the potential to cause safety problems since pilots rely upon them to compute takeoff weights.
Discrepancies between an aircraft's reported and actual weight/weight distribution could manifest as a safety problem for a pilot in an extreme situation such as engine failure, the WSJ said.
In its email Tuesday, the FAA said it began investigating the weight and balance performance data of Southwest in February 2018.
"Since that time, the FAA has directed the development of a comprehensive solution to the methods and processes used by Southwest Airlines to determine this performance data," an agency spokesperson said. "The FAA will not close its investigation until it is satisfied that Southwest's corrective actions are consistent and sustained."
In its own statement, Southwest said that it voluntarily reported the issues to the FAA last year....”
Photo by Jonathan Weiss / shutterstock.com
https://www.travelweekly.com/Travel...ng-Southwest-over-baggage-weight-calculations
By Robert Silk / Aviation / Travel Weekly / travelweekly.com / Feb 19, 2019
“For the past year, the FAA has been investigating Southwest Airlines' procedures for calculating and recording the weight and balance of aircraft, the agency confirmed in an email Tuesday.
The investigation, first revealed by the Wall Street Journal on Monday, deals primarily with miscalculations of the total weight of checked luggage on Southwest flights. Such miscalculations have the potential to cause safety problems since pilots rely upon them to compute takeoff weights.
Discrepancies between an aircraft's reported and actual weight/weight distribution could manifest as a safety problem for a pilot in an extreme situation such as engine failure, the WSJ said.
In its email Tuesday, the FAA said it began investigating the weight and balance performance data of Southwest in February 2018.
"Since that time, the FAA has directed the development of a comprehensive solution to the methods and processes used by Southwest Airlines to determine this performance data," an agency spokesperson said. "The FAA will not close its investigation until it is satisfied that Southwest's corrective actions are consistent and sustained."
In its own statement, Southwest said that it voluntarily reported the issues to the FAA last year....”
Photo by Jonathan Weiss / shutterstock.com