Originally Posted by MasterOfPuppets

i once heard a test that was done to find out how much extra weight was being carried around based on trash and dirt under the floors. They throughly cleaned the aircraft during a D check and then re weighed it. The number had a 7 in it…..70 lbs seems to low but 700 seems to high….either way it’s a lot.

side note….had to have MX fish a cell phone out from under the floor boards on a 787. Same as this aircraft they had to remove panels in the cargo hold to get to it.