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Old 08-14-2018, 05:02 PM
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https://www.bizjournals.com/chicago/...hoo&yptr=yahoo

Southwest Airlines abruptly grounded 66 Boeing 737 aircraft in its fleet last Wednesday after issues with the carrier’s aircraft weight records were discovered. In an internal memo to employees on the matter that was obtained by the Chicago Business Journal, Southwest said: “Today (Wednesday) we discovered the weights being sent to our Dispatch Operation did not match our other weight records for a number of aircraft in the fleet. As a result, and out of an abundance of caution, we have stopped flying those aircraft to recalculate the weights of the aircraft in question and reset the program.” (cont.)
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Old news. Non story made into a story by the bored media.
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Old 08-15-2018, 10:26 AM
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First I heard about it.
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Old 08-15-2018, 10:29 AM
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Originally Posted by rickair7777 View Post
First I heard about it.
We really did land on the moon.

It was just kept quiet until now.
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