National Transportation Safety Board documents, released on Wednesday, reveal a great deal about weight and balance calculations on the de Havilland DHC-3 Otter that crashed in Soldotna last July. The ...

Question: Some aircraft have three seats on one side of the aisle and two seats on the other side. Does this imbalance affect aircraft performance? Shouldn't the weight be distributed evenly on each ...

Yes, a weight and balance issue can be more critical on smaller airplane because a even a small error accounts for a larger percentage of the total weight. A 500-lb ...

In Part 1, we discussed how a Beech King Air 200 wound up in the frigid waters of Unalaska Bay, Alaska. It seems likely that the pilot knew the King Air was overweight. When investigators re-created ...

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration is seeking to fine Southwest Airlines $3.9 million for failing to properly calculate the weight of planes and make sure that loads were ...