Woman weighed like baggage before flight – IOTW Report

Woman weighed like baggage before flight

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A traveler has shared the mortifying moment that a fellow passenger was forced to step on a baggage scale before takeoff after confusion over her weight.

A clip detailing the humiliating measure was originally posted in March, but has amassed 1.6 million views on TikTok as viewers speculate whether the airline was discriminating against plus-size travelers.

“The whole airport trying to mind their own business as a woman is asked to step on the baggage scale because she claimed she was 130lbs,” the TikTok user @lilwessel wrote in the caption.

She added, “It’s a tiny plane so they needed our weight to take off for safety reasons.” MORE

34 Comments on Woman weighed like baggage before flight

  1. If it’s a small aircraft, then you need to weigh the passengers because taking off too heavy or with the center of gravity too far forward or back will crash the friggin’ airplane.

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  2. you just knew if was a dindo nuffin and of course, maybe she meant 130 TONS from the picture of her big fat ass.

    I don’t give a shit if she is offended. Better than me and the remaining passengers ending up in a ditch because the plane did not calculate the right take off speed and distance. Enough of this make everyone happy shit.

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  3. I’m not plus sized and I’ve been weighed before getting on a small plane. Granted we had a full load, but nobody wants to crash. Uneven weight distribution can be a problem.

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  4. Body positive? What is positive about your body??
    Everyone wants accommodations.
    You were embarrassed having to get on the scales?
    But you aren’t embarrassed over the oversize and overweight body?
    Yes Airlines, built a plane to accommodate people who have no self control over their weight.
    Oh wait, there’s an airplane that accommodate “Body Positive” ++++ sized, it’s a Lockheed C-5 Galaxy a heavy intercontinental-range strategic airlift capability, one that can carry outsize and oversize cargos.
    Body positive, your ++++ sized ass.

    http://www.military.com/video/aircraft/military-aircraft/largest-aircraft-in-us-military/3756575160001

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  5. “I’ve never been more embarrassed in my life!” BS. You’ve been walking around like that all your life, and no embarrassment until a cash cow comes along–like suing the airline for humiliation. Stay away from Disneyland, Magic Mountain, cuz you ain’t ridin anywhere being a heifer.

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  6. Airline personnel need to be trained to estimate passenger weight. If in doubt, put them on the scales (a standard bathroom scale is accurate enough, and more discrete).Ticket agreements need to tell passengers they could be required to scale. Put fat people over the wing.

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  7. As SNS indication with the video, most people do not realize how weight and weight distribution is important on an airplane.

    Maybe before booking seats online, the software should as for weight and then show available seating based on that weight — to be visually(and physically) confirmed at check-in. Have the information come up on the screen buy not printed.

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  8. Another gripe of mine is Exit Row Seating. You are supposed to be physically capable of opening the heavy emergency exit door. I have seen children and 80 year old women seated in the exit row. Air crew training isn’t what it used to be.

    Side bar: In the video linked above by SNS, the captain of the fatal crash was a 25 year old woman with very little flight time. Affirmative action was probably a factor.

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  9. she was humiliated?
    she should be humiliated, she lied and the airline didn’t buy it, and they were right.
    just curious what was her weight?
    if they banned her from flying, and she had to walk to where she was going, several problems could be solved.

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  10. In a small private plane, weight calculation may be recalculated if you have the the airplane painted.
    Large aircraft:
    “Paint on a plane adds anywhere from 600 to 1,200 pounds (272 – 544 kg) to the aircraft’s weight. This extra weight increases the amount of fuel a plane burns, and can ultimately be equivalent to carrying as many as eight additional passengers. Removing this unnecessary weight makes the flights cheaper to operate.”

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  11. Try 230 not 130. Those have to 50+ inch hips.
    Back in the days of Air Florida some of us had to step on the scale. It appeared to be a puddle jumper plane. I ended up overstating my weight and was happy to see the real number. This wasn’t a problem for me especially since the tickets were free from a flight attendant relative.

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  12. Center of gravity limit are hard limits in aviation. Engineering test pilots evaluating new aircraft are very careful to identify the actual aft-CG limit… So they never go there again.

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  13. That first link, h tps://nypost.com/2023/05/18/i-cant-fit-in-the-plane-aisle-it-feels-like-discrimination/, is infuriating. She says, “I’m ten times the size of most models but I’m still more beautiful than any of them”. If she does say so herself. That’s like calling a big pile of shit beautiful because it’s symmetrical. And she has the lack of decency to wear yoga pants out in public. Each leg looked like it was overstuffed with heads of cauliflower. Which she should be eating a lot of. She’s probably forty years younger than I am. I’m in the gym 6 days out of the week at 6:00 a.m. It’s not that tough. Set your alarm and get your ass to the gym. So in the long run these fat slobs problem is not that they’re fat. It’s that they have zero drive, and zero will power. I have no sympathy.

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  14. I weigh 138 and my ass is less than half of hers.

    I’m not skinny either.

    She humiliated herself when she lied. Children blame others when they’re called out when caught.

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