A320 tipped up and struck tail at Milan after passenger load mismatch

Alitalia A320-c-Eric Salard Creative Commons

Source: Eric Salard/Creative Commons

Italian investigators have determined that an improper distribution of passengers on board an Alitalia Airbus A320 resulted in the aircraft’s suffering a tail-strike during an aborted take-off at Milan Malpensa.

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