Originally Posted by
ensco
AC 446 today is at least 1 hour 20 minutes delayed because the plane was “overfueled”....
This feels like something that can’t happen. Anybody ever heard of this before?
I've had it happen on planes up to a 737 in size.
Last minute equipment swap on the route, overfueled because on a short trip the extra fuel would put the plane over the maximum landing weight (either for the runway or for the mfr's rated landing weight).
Be glad your fuelers took out enough, but not too much. Air Canada has famously landed with zero fuel and zero engines before. My backpack Gimli Glider tag doesn't even smell like Jet-A.
