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Rotation Gone Wrong: The Critical Error Behind LATAM’s Milan Tail Strike

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There are a number of tail strike incidents caused by the take-off weight being logged as lower than it actually was. The first page is all the basic details that we mostly knew: the aircraft was a Boeing 777 (registered in Brazil as PT-MUG) operated by Tam Linhas Aereas for a passenger flight from Milan Malpensa (MXP) to São Paulo.

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