Aircraft is too heavy for lift off, Volunteers required to deboard

NEW DELHI: Denial of boarding on a flight due to overbooking or for operational reasons may be a common occurrence at Indian airports. However, imagine the plight of passengers, seated inside a plane, waiting for final takeoff call, who instead hear a cabin announcement, asking for volunteers to deboard.

Why? Because the aircraft is too heavy for lift off. This is precisely what happened at Amritsar on Sunday when passengers of a private airliner were seated inside an ATR and waiting to be flown to Delhi. Read more...........................Fliers offloaded to lighten plane

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