TUI 737 weight incident traced to ‘Miss’ interpretation of female passengers

TUI 737-800 G-TAWG-c-Alan Wilson Creative Commons

Source: Alan Wilson/Creative Commons

Investigators have traced a take-off weight error on a TUI Airways Boeing 737-800 to a flaw introduced to a reservations system by international differences in the manner that female passengers are addressed.

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