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“…you’re going to make the plane crash!”

Add this to the list of reasons to lose weight: The National Transportation Safety Board has recommend that airlines weigh passengers and their luggage to keep planes from being overloaded.

Until now, the FAA has used a set numerical reference points (a certain number of pounds per passenger and per bag, kind of like a standard deduction for mass) for determining the safe load for planes, but the NTSB, empowered only to make recommendations and not regulations, says that it’s not enough to keep up with Americans’ expanding waistlines.

I’m sure that if these recommendations get adopted, the weighing-in with be handled with the same discretion and aplomb that the TSA has already demonstrated.