# The Great Ongoing Aviation Thread (general and other) (Part 1)

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**Created:** [October 23, 2011, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-aviation-thread-general-and-other-part-1/600499 "2011-10-23T02:17:01Z")\
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File this under … “oops”!

[https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/jetblue-plane-tipped-jfk/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/jetblue-plane-tipped-jfk/index.html)

My first impression was that this was due to incompetent unloading of cargo, but it may not have been – the article sez:

> “Once at the gate, due to a shift in weight and balance during deplaning, the tail of the aircraft tipped backward causing the nose of the aircraft to lift up and eventually return back down,” JetBlue told CNN.

Maybe the moral of the story should be: if your policy is to deplane the high-class passengers at the front first, maybe consider that the entire membership of the local Fat People’s Club are all sitting at the back! 😉

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