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Old Jun 10, 2017 | 7:52 pm
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Originally Posted by Kevin AA
The only 6-across plane with tail-mounted engines I can think of is the 727. (It must have been tail-mounted because that's the only time a very light load requires moving everyone up front as a 737 or like would be front-heavy if everyone sat up front)

That happened to me one time as well on an AA MD-80... very light load and they moved everyone up front.
No, the problem was they put the cargo in wrong and they were trying to compensate without taking everything out and starting over.
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