07.08.08
Leicestershire Trading Standards officers visited East Midlands Airport to check its baggage scales recently, and found that 17% were inaccurate, the Loughborough News reports.
The Trading Standards officers wanted to make sure customers did not incur excess baggage charges because of scale inaccuracies. They also wanted to check that there is no risk to passenger safety from scales giving a false low reading, leading to aircraft overloading.
During the visit officers found 17% of baggage scales - 9 out of the 52 tested - gave inaccurate readings, the newspaper reports. Of those, three (6%) were so inaccurate that they needed to be withdrawn from use immediately.
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