Safety Board Blames Fine Air DC-8 Crash On Misloaded Cargo

Probable cause of the fatal crash last summer of a Fine Air DC-8 freighter was the misloading of its cargo, which produced a "more aft center of gravity and a correspondingly incorrect stabilizer trim setting that precipitated an extreme pitch-up" at liftoff, the National Transportation Safety Board...

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