ACCIDENT CHALLENGER HAD EXTREME FORWARD CENTER OF GRAVITY, SOURCES SAY
Sources say investigators have discovered that the Teterboro Challenger had an extreme forward center-of-gravity condition, which would have made it difficult for the crew to raise the nose of the airplane and rotate for takeoff.
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