Originally Posted by
rockflyertalk
Like you said, it sounds quite plausible. What would be the reason for requesting 100% fuel in the tanks vs the regular 80%? And would flight deck colleagues not question that?
Just to be very clear - it is fact (the investigation found this) that the aircraft was overweight. This is not in dispute. The question fundamentally is ‘how much weight do you attribute to different pieces of the evidential jigsaw’?