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		callalex on July 24, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 40 years ago yesterday Air Canada Flight 143 ran o... You would have to have a perfectly accurate manifest of passengers and cargo for that to work.

cjbgkagh on July 24, 2023 [–]

I think it should be possible to ballpark it. Use some statistical averages as well as the different positions for the weight to come up with a probability distribution function.

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